If I remember correctly…
When lethal injection came to Missouri in the 1980’s, the doctors would not participate in the process. It violated their professional oaths. The state decided to sidestep the doctors by creating a special type of certification in the medical arena: IV certification. This trained nurses and the like to insert IV tubes into patients in hospitals and care facilities–a good and helpful skill to help heal people. The timing was suspicious though, as it allowed the state to train executioners as well.
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December 24th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
If I remember correctly…
When lethal injection came to Missouri in the 1980’s, the doctors would not participate in the process. It violated their professional oaths. The state decided to sidestep the doctors by creating a special type of certification in the medical arena: IV certification. This trained nurses and the like to insert IV tubes into patients in hospitals and care facilities–a good and helpful skill to help heal people. The timing was suspicious though, as it allowed the state to train executioners as well.