Deborah Denno comments to American Medical News on the lack of U.S. medical boards to discipline doctors for taking part in executions — a fact unlikely to change.
Deborah W. Denno, a law professor at Fordham University in New York who has written extensively on doctors and the death penalty, agreed with Alper’s findings. She said state medical boards lack a persuasive case to show that they should have the power to bar doctors from the death chamber, contradicting state law.
“They’re not going to have a very strong argument for doing that, and that’s been proven to be the case,” Denno said.
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