Ethical implications of modifying lethal injection protocols

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 03:49 in Health & Medicine

A team of medical, ethical, and legal scholars argues in this week's PLoS Medicine that in some US states the modification of lethal injection protocols is tantamount to experimentation upon prisoners without the prisoners' consent and without any ethical safeguards.

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