US: Role of EMTs in executions criticized
May 19th, 2009 | Published in Feature | 2 Comments
When the state carries out a death sentence, intermediate-level emergency medical technicians deliver the fatal drugs to condemned prisoners.
But a Columbus surgeon and longtime opponent of capital punishment contends that these technicians are not allowed to administer the drugs.
Read full article: DispatchPolitics
Thanks to Harwetopa via Twitter
May 19th, 2009at 11:25(#)
This is without doubt one of the sickest things I’ve read in a very long time.
And I thought doing custody work is wrong!
The last paragraph is particularly awful:
FTA: “We have never used any doctors or nurses in the process, and we wouldn’t want to do that because it conflicts with any oath they have taken as it relates to preserving lives”
Thank goodness the UK does not ‘legally’ murder its citizens for any reason! Let’s hope we never do.
May 22nd, 2009at 18:51(#)
would like to know what the EMTs fee is – bet a hefty financial incentive is enough to sway certain EMS employees to perform the task…