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Criminal

Oct. 25, 2006

Death-Penalty Work Tests Lawyers' Ethics

FORUM COLUMN - By Natasha Minsker - As the weeklong hearing on lethal injection in federal district court in San Jose highlighted, doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, even emergency medical technicians and phlebotomists, have been discussing for some time the ethics of their professional involvement in the administration of the death penalty.


Forum Column

By Natasha Minsker

     
      As the weeklong hearing on lethal injection in federal district court in San Jose highlighted, doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, even emergency medical technicians and phlebotomists, have been discussing for some time the ethics of their professional involvement in the administration of the death penalty. By contrast, the one profession intimately invo...

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