Doctors, Discipline, and the Death Penalty: Professional Implications of Safe Harbor Policies

Doctors, Discipline, and the Death Penalty: Professional Implications of Safe Harbor Statutes

HPSA and the Anti-Kickback safe harbor: are we sending doctors to the right neighborhoods?

This article explores the problems within a niche area of health law, the Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) safe harbor of the Anti-Kickback Statute. The author advocates for its removal by discussing how the HPSA designation is being used incorrectly to curb fraudulent behavior and how the current provision serves few hospitals. The author concludes by suggesting innovative solutions to...

Eliminating the death penalty from drug crimes: requirements and Prohibitions

The Ideaof the capability of the death penalty to deal with drug-related crimes is, in essence, a guarantor of the goal of safeguarding human capital and social values. Certainly, Use of the death penalty can be accepted in response to some of the narcotics crimes. But there are many other crimes that follow the death penalty, but they can be categorically opposed and unsuccessful. Execution is...

A Comparative Study of the Crimes Leading to the Death Penalty in the Quran, Zoroastrian Legal Sources, and the Penal Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran

This paper aims to examine the death penalty in Zoroastrianism, the Quran, and the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran. By studying antient Zoroastrian texts, we face a variety of crimes and punishments such as murder, robbery, adultery, magic, rape, and assault that were always considered to be the worst offenses. Zoroastrian religious scholars wrote books on crimes and their punishment in th...

Dual Punitiveness- Tolerant Approaches to Response to Drugs and Psychotropic Crimes: Discourse Analysis of “Metri Shisho Nim” movie

Extended Abstract Introduction: Although there has been a deep consensus among criminal science scholars about the necessity of applying punishment per se in response to the most severe criminal behaviors, human beings still tend to instinctively respond to criminal behavior with repressive measures. While there is no denial of the necessity of applying penalties in the fight against criminal ...