Death Penalty Dilemmas: Selected Issues

Forum - Psychiatrists and the Death Penalty: Some Ethical Dilemmas

A critical controversy is occurring in the USA in regard to physician participation in legal execution that has worldwide implications for ethics and morality in medicine [1]. It is disconcerting that efforts are being made in the USA to permit psychiatrists to participate in legal executions. This is surprising, as many national and international organizations have passed resolutions prohibiti...

Opposing the death penalty.

The Death Penalty

a Criminal Justice Bill. Sir Hartley Shawcross Attorney-General, moved that the House should disagree with the Lords' amendment to delete Clause I (suspension of the death penalty for murder). He urged the merits of the Government's proposal to recognize two categories of murder?the capital and non-capital. He thought that juries would have no difficulty in deciding whether a murder came into o...

Death Penalty Editorial.rtf

The death penalty.

" In what sense can the death penalty be part of a justice system? " The idealised view of justice in the West is that it is blind. It does not recognise any difference between the rich and the poor, or the educated and the uneducated. A judge is obliged to give the same sentence to either, and therefore sees everyone as equal. The death penalty forces us to look at the problems of putting an i...