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
  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    There’s a reason why medical professionals do not assist with executions.

    I hate to break it to you, but the article quite literally says that “medical team members” were responsible for assisting in getting the IV line into Creech.

    Harvard also says that physicians do assist (SOURCE)

    And even this cardiologist says it’s better that they do than not, even though he is against capital punishment.

    It’s certainly a debated topic in the realm of ethics, no doubt, but it still happens.

    But getting back to my question:

    If medically assisted suicide is not cruel, and Creech requested that he wanted to die via lethal injection (medically assisted suicide, since it was at his request), where do we have a problem?