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
More than likely it’s not being performed by anyone with any real medical training.
I work in healthcare, I don’t know anyone in my field who would think executions are something they would be willing to apply their skills towards.
I bet some phlebotomists could be convinced.
Yeah, but they’re typically only trained to take blood. You wouldn’t want one trying to insert an IV on ya or anything.
Better than someone with no “real medical training.”
Yeah, prob better than nothing. But, I doubt many phlebotomists would be very excited about the prospect either, especially considering they don’t get paid very well to begin with. Something tells me the state isn’t paying a whole bunch of bonuses to people on the execution team.
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.