Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an intravenous line to carry out the lethal injection. Creech, 73, has been in prison half a century, convicted of five murders in three states and suspected of several more. Creech, one of the longest-serving death row inmates in the U.S., was wheeled into the execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution on a gurney a
Maybe this is an ignorant thing to say but it seems like it would fly in the face of the hippocratic oath. I imagine that’s hard for a lot of people to square with what is considered a pretty important promise.
Only doctors take the Hippocratic oath, it’s also not legally binding
Good point on doctors - as for legality I wasn’t really saying that, I was speaking just to people’s personal values, hence the like about squaring it away with a promise line. IME doctors take the oath somewhat seriously. Asking them to use their knowledge to kill is a tall order.