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
Couldn’t find anyone who knew what they were doing, huh? Not many medical professionals out there that want to be involved in murdering people.
I suspect that you don’t want the people willing to do this actually to do this.
Not only that but Idaho has some draconian abortion positions so I’m sure that at this point a lot of medical professionals have left the state. But yeah you’re right this does sort of go against the “do no harm” thingy doctors are always prattling on about.
Doctors will not perform lethal injection. It goes against the Hippocratic Oath:“First do no harm”