{"id":7488,"date":"2017-06-06T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T03:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7488"},"modified":"2018-03-06T18:21:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T02:21:40","slug":"death-row-doctoring-the-dicey-medical-ethics-of-prison-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7488","title":{"rendered":"Death Row Doctoring: The Dicey Medical Ethics of Prison Executions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Medscape<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Seema Yasmin<\/p>\n<p>I had seen people die, but I had never watched a person be killed\u2014until I moved to Texas. It was a warm day in September 2014 when my editor sent me to death row in Huntsville. I had joined the <em>Dallas Morning News<\/em> as a reporter that summer, never expecting my job to land me in a small, musty room overlooking an execution chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Through green metal bars and a window, I watched Lisa Ann Coleman lying on a crucifix-shaped gurney, yellow leather straps wrapped around her arms and legs. Coleman, a 38-year-old African American woman, was scheduled to die at 6 PM for the murder of a 9-year-old boy in 2004. A microphone hung from the ceiling of the execution chamber and hovered an inch or two above her round brown face. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/881002#vp_3\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medscape Seema Yasmin I had seen people die, but I had never watched a person be killed\u2014until I moved to Texas. It was a warm day in September 2014 when my editor sent me to death row in Huntsville. 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