{"id":9631,"date":"2019-05-09T21:37:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T04:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9631"},"modified":"2019-09-25T21:44:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T04:44:45","slug":"physician-participation-in-lethal-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9631","title":{"rendered":"Physician Participation in Lethal Injection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"author\">Deborah W. Denno<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                 On April 1, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Missouri death-row inmate\u2019s claim that executing him using the state\u2019s lethal-injection protocol would violate the Eighth Amendment\u2019s ban on \u201ccruel and unusual punishment\u201d because blood-filled tumors in his head, neck, and throat could rupture and cause him to choke and suffer \u201cexcruciating\u201d and \u201cprolonged pain.\u201d<sup>. . .<\/sup>  the opinion\u2019s unusual facts and circumstances throw into sharp relief the pervasiveness of physician participation in lethal injection despite the medical community\u2019s professed condemnation of such                  involvement. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p> Denno DW.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp1814786\">Physician Participation in Lethal Injection<\/a>. N Engl J Med 2019; 380:1790-1791  DOI: 10.1056\/NEJMp1814786<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah W. Denno On April 1, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Missouri death-row inmate\u2019s claim that executing him using the state\u2019s lethal-injection protocol would violate the Eighth Amendment\u2019s ban on \u201ccruel and unusual punishment\u201d because blood-filled tumors in his head, neck, and throat could rupture and cause him to choke and suffer \u201cexcruciating\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9631\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Physician Participation in Lethal Injection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,844,217,8,28],"tags":[3791,3792],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethical-commentary","category-execution","category-lawsuits","category-legal-commentary","category-usa","tag-deborah-w-denno","tag-russell-bucklew"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Physician Participation in Lethal Injection - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9631\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Physician Participation in Lethal Injection - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Deborah W. 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