CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Assisted dying can be “inhumane”, experts claim

Michael Cook | 02 March 2019 | Comments

tags: anaesthesia, assisted suicide, capital punishment, euthanasia

Some patients have taken a week to die

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If you cannot remember a crime, should you be executed for it?

Michael Cook | 06 October 2018 | Comments

tags: capital punishment, death penalty

A prisoner on death row in Alabama may not remember a murder he committed in 1985

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Capital punishment stumbles ahead in US

Michael Cook | 11 August 2018 | Comments

tags: capital punishment, death penalty

Lethal injections are becoming more difficult to administer

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US states could use nitrogen to execute prisoners

Michael Cook | 20 May 2018 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, capital punishment, usa

If it works for underground assisted suicide networks, why not in prisons?

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Will assisted suicide always provide a quick and gentle death?

Michael Cook | 07 October 2017 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, capital punishment

No, sorry, not always

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Should American doctors participate in executions?

Michael Cook | 06 May 2017 | Comments

tags: capital punishment, medical ethics

Against the consensus, a cardiologist says they should

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Arkansas rushes to execute 7 in 11 days

Michael Cook | 07 April 2017 | Comments

tags: capital punishment, death penalty

It will run out of lethal drugs before the end of April.

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The Philippines moves to reintroduce capital punishment

Xavier Symons | 10 March 2017 | Comments

tags: capital punishment, lethal injection, philippines

The Philippine House of Representatives has voted in favour of a bill that would allow the execution of criminals.

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A doctor at the centre of the capital punishment debate

Michael Cook | 21 January 2017 | Comments

tags: capital punishment, georgia

Dr Carlo Musso explains why he cooperates

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Pfizer to stop supplying drugs for executions

Michael Cook | 14 May 2016 | Comments

tags: capital punishment

But will it continue to supply them for euthanasia?

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Harvesting of executed prisoners’ organs will cease by 2015 - Chinese government

Xavier Symons | 06 December 2014 | Comments

tags: capital punishment, China, organ trafficking

The harvesting of executed prisoners’ organs will end at the start of next year, says Chinese organ transplant committee chairman Huang Jiefu.

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Should doctors take part in executions?

Michael Cook | 23 May 2014 | Comments

tags: capital punishment

It is unethical for American physicians to participate in executions, according to a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Embargo on lethal drug stops executions and assisted suicides in US

Michael Cook | 23 May 2014 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, capital punishment, euthanasia, Nembutal

A shortage of a lethal drug is stopping both executions and assisted suicide in the United States.

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World Medical Association strengthens opposition to capital punishment

Michael Cook | 03 November 2012 | Comments

tags: capital punishment, World Medical Association

The World Medical Association has strengthened its opposition to capital punishment

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Death row prisoners sue FDA for allowing importation of unapproved execution drug

Jared Yee | 09 February 2011 | Comments

tags: capital punishment

Six death row prisoners sue FDA

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Is activists’ favourite suicide drug “torturous”?

Michael Cook | 13 November 2010 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, capital punishment, euthanasia, Nembutal

Controversy over Oklahoma execution