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Com Outlook (Winter/Spring 2022 - Volume 23 Number 1), Nova Southeastern University
Com Outlook (Winter/Spring 2022 - Volume 23 Number 1), Nova Southeastern University
COM Outlook
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Com Outlook (Summer/Fall 2022 - Volume 21 Number 2), Nova Southeastern University
Com Outlook (Summer/Fall 2022 - Volume 21 Number 2), Nova Southeastern University
COM Outlook
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Com Outlook (Spring 2021 - Volume 22 Issue 1), Nova Southeastern University
Com Outlook (Spring 2021 - Volume 22 Issue 1), Nova Southeastern University
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Caring To Death: Health Care Professionals And Capital Punishment, Cary H. Federman, Dave Holmes
Caring To Death: Health Care Professionals And Capital Punishment, Cary H. Federman, Dave Holmes
Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The aim of this article is to describe the role of health care professionals in the capital punishment process. The relationship between the protocol of capital punishment in the United States and the use of health care professionals to carry out that task has been overlooked in the literature on punishment. Yet for some time, the operation of the medical sciences in prison have been `part of a disciplinary strategy' `intrinsic to the development of power relationships'. Many capital punishment statutes require medical personnel to be present at, if not actively involved in, executions. Through analyses of these statutes, show …