Entries tagged with “American Medical Association”
Policy Issues
Secrecy
,New Voices
,Executions Overview
,May 20, 2022
Former South Carolina Death-Row Doctor: “I’m Supposed to be Saving People, Not Killing People”
After 37 years of silence, a South Carolina prison doctor who was in the execution chamber when eight prisoners it was his duty to treat were put to death has for the first time publicly discussed his conflicting…
Executions
Lethal Injection
,Feb 10, 2022
Oklahoma is Paying Execution Doctor $15,000 Plus Training Fees for Each Execution
Oklahoma is paying $15,000 per execution, plus $1,000 for each day of training, to an unnamed doctor to participate in the process of putting state prisoners to death. Under the agreement, the doctor stood to receive an estimated $130,000 over the course of the 19-week-period between October 28, 2021 and March 10, 2022 in which the state had scheduled the executions of seven…