Letters to the Editor
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@jameslouder and medical murder
"What's particularly obscene about the lethal injection method is that it makes medical technology complicit in judicial murder."
Thank you. I feel exactly the same way. Two of the three steps of the current lethal injection protocol (the sedative and the paralytic agent) are the same drugs that anesthesiologists use to get a patient through surgery. The lethal injection protocol is a perversion of medical science.
Many physicians feel the same way I do. The North Carolina State Medical Board issued a statement that any physician participating in capital punishment would be censured. So what did North Carolina do? Sued the medical board, saying that lethal injection would become impossible to perform. Also, laughingly, the state argued that lethal injection wasn't legitimate medicine, so the Board couldn't regulate it.
Absolutely. Lethal injection isn't medicine. So knock it off.