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Many doctors believe participating in executions is a violation of the Hippocratic Oath. I suspect that you're right. > Even if they believe in the death pena
by curryst 6y ago
Many doctors believe participating in executions is a violation of the Hippocratic Oath. I suspect that you're right.
> Even if they believe in the death penalty the risk to their careers seems not worth the non-existent reward.
I would presume they pay fairly handsomely, if there are few doctors willing to participate. Even if they payed them $10,000 to do it, there aren't enough executions a year for it to dent the budget. I wonder if that info is public.
- wl 6y agoThe median anesthesiologist in the US earns a little under $400,000/yr. $10,000 is probably not enough to get one risk their career to carry out an execution.