what is your views on death by lethal injection and a doctor as the over seer?

Question

every line of buisness ,has certain degree's,trainings,would it not be more feasable if the government required special training for this,with out drawing a doctor in on his hippocratic oath,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath_classical.html

Answer 1

It is a problem I think. They promise to do no harm, clearly injecting someone who is otherwise healthy with something that will kill them violates the oath.

There is the issue that the courts have raised that without such participation by a medical person, then such sentence might be cruel and unusual...

While personally I don't think it is cruel or unusual, I would think the most medically trained person who does NOT take the Hippocratic oath would be fine (do paramedics or nurses take a similar oath?) and get around the issue.

Then the coroner who had nothing to do with the death, can proclaim them dead.

Answer 2

Since the Death Penalty is legal, we have to have a doctor
there to pronounce death. A coroner is a doctor, and many
times they are called to homicide or natural deaths to make
sure of status of person( usually dead) it is pretty much a
formality. The State, puts the inmate to death, not the Doc.
And remember, it LEGAL, so he is exempt.