IANAL
I’m still waiting for the AMA to strip the license of any physician that participates in the development of execution technologies or executions themselves for breach of oath.[1] They have said they are “troubled” by the requirements of many states to have a physician assist in executions but that seems like a rather easy position [...]
Courtesy of Justin Wolfers:
The front page of Sunday’s New York Times contained an interesting article reviewing research linking the death penalty to homicide trends. Adam Liptak attempts to provide a balanced account of the debate, noting first one set of findings:
According to roughly a dozen recent studies, executions save lives. For each inmate put to [...]
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