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Even more complex a question is what role--if any--doctors should play in administering the injection. In 1980, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a policy that "a physician, as a member of a profession dedicated to preserving life when there is hope of doing so, should not be a participant in a legally authorized execution." The Texas Medical Association has reiterated this position...
Gray and other doctors claim the AMA policy applies only to direct participation in an execution. But some are not so sure...
...think the AMA understood what was being driven at, and I think the state association did, too," said Dr. Willian Curran, professor of legal medicine at the Medical School. "It was never just the physical act of inserting the needle or the substance that they were thinking...
...doctors will have to take up the weightily question of whether to put aside their aversion to the death penalty in order to give a convict the most humane treatment possible under the law. But for now, it seems an investigation of Gray's conduct is in order. The AMA has taken a stand against participating in executions. All doctors should be held...
...soldiers, like careless tourists, had forgotten to fill out Israeli immigration cards. Finally, clutching their M-16 rifles, the men set off on a nine-mile march within view of the majestic rust-colored Sinai mountains to their new home, a base camp just south of Na'ama...