The use of the death penalty for certain crimes.
The application of an unpleasant stimulus or penalty for the purpose of eliminating or correcting undesirable behavior.

Physician participation in capital punishment: a question of professional integrity. (1/14)

The death penalty is legal in 36 states, and physicians are expected to attend and participate in executions. Yet, every major medical and health-related organization opposes physician participation in capital punishment. This article argues that it is unethical for physicians within the role as medical professional to participate in capital punishment, and that such acts erode the foundation of trust at the heart of medical practice. We believe that it is important for professional groups and medical societies to impose sanctions on members who choose to participate in executions.  (+info)

'Libyan Trial': a verdict running counter to scientific evidence. (2/14)

Sidaction's appeal regarding the sentencing of medical personnels in the Libyan-HIV infection cases.  (+info)

Libya, HIV, and open communication. (3/14)

This year-end editorial discusses several points including the recent Libyan verdict sentencing five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for allegedly infecting 426 children with HIV. It also comments on the role played by open communication for bridging cultural misunderstandings and summarizes briefly Retrovirology's progress in 2006.  (+info)

Lethal injection for execution: chemical asphyxiation? (4/14)

BACKGROUND: Lethal injection for execution was conceived as a comparatively humane alternative to electrocution or cyanide gas. The current protocols are based on one improvised by a medical examiner and an anesthesiologist in Oklahoma and are practiced on an ad hoc basis at the discretion of prison personnel. Each drug used, the ultrashort-acting barbiturate thiopental, the neuromuscular blocker pancuronium bromide, and the electrolyte potassium chloride, was expected to be lethal alone, while the combination was intended to produce anesthesia then death due to respiratory and cardiac arrest. We sought to determine whether the current drug regimen results in death in the manner intended. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We analyzed data from two US states that release information on executions, North Carolina and California, as well as the published clinical, laboratory, and veterinary animal experience. Execution outcomes from North Carolina and California together with interspecies dosage scaling of thiopental effects suggest that in the current practice of lethal injection, thiopental might not be fatal and might be insufficient to induce surgical anesthesia for the duration of the execution. Furthermore, evidence from North Carolina, California, and Virginia indicates that potassium chloride in lethal injection does not reliably induce cardiac arrest. CONCLUSIONS: We were able to analyze only a limited number of executions. However, our findings suggest that current lethal injection protocols may not reliably effect death through the mechanisms intended, indicating a failure of design and implementation. If thiopental and potassium chloride fail to cause anesthesia and cardiac arrest, potentially aware inmates could die through pancuronium-induced asphyxiation. Thus the conventional view of lethal injection leading to an invariably peaceful and painless death is questionable.  (+info)

Media influenced imitative hanging: a report from West Bengal. (5/14)

Media influences behaviour, especially of the young children and adolescents in various ways. The present study examined the media coverage of a judicial hanging and its immediate social effect. In a qualitative study the media coverage of a case of a judicial hanging was thoroughly discussed and the media influence, for over a period of ten weeks of the incident, in terms of suicide and copying of hanging among children, was collected and analysed. Eighteen cases were reported as an aftermath of this hanging: 1 suicide and 17 imitative hanging in children with 5 deaths. This report calls for attention that media should be cautious and responsible in presenting the news items that have potential social impact.  (+info)

Punishing physicians who torture: a work in progress. (6/14)

BACKGROUND: There are only a few anecdotal accounts describing physicians being punished for complicity with torture or crimes against humanity. A fuller list of such cases would address the perception that physicians may torture with impunity and point to how to improve their accountability for such crimes. METHODS: We performed a multilingual web search of the records of international and national courts, military tribunals, medical associations (licensing boards and medical societies), medical and non-medical literature databases, human rights groups and media stories for reports of physicians who had been punished for complicity with torture or crimes against humanity that were committed after World War II. RESULTS: We found 56 physicians in eight countries who had been punished for complicity with torture or crimes against humanity. Courts punish crimes. Medical societies punish ethics violations. Fifty-one physicians (85%) had been punished by the medical associations of five countries. Eleven (18%) had been punished by domestic courts. International courts had imprisoned two (3%) physicians. Several were punished by courts and professional associations. There are open cases against 22 physicians. CONCLUSIONS: Punishments against physicians for crimes against humanity are becoming institutionalized. Medical associations must lead in shouldering responsibility for self-regulation in this matter. Physicians have supervised torture ever since medieval "Torture Physicians" certified that prisoners were medically capable of withstanding the torture and of providing the desired testimony. Revelations of sadistic medical experiments on prisoners during World War II turned the world against physician torturers and led to the "Doctor's Trial" at Nuremberg, a trial that held physicians accountable for crimes against humanity. This paper describes the largest case series of physicians who have been punished for abetting torture or other crimes against humanity committed after World War II. We wanted to: 1) describe and categorize the hearing procedures, 2) identify the roles of punished physicians, 3) categorize acts for which physicians are punished, and 4) describe the political cultures in which punishments arise. Our larger aim was to learn whether punishments against physicians for abetting torture or crimes against humanity occur under sufficiently diverse environments as to inform generalizable public policy to punish and perhaps to deter this kind of medical misconduct.  (+info)

Electrocution-related mortality: a review of 351 deaths by low-voltage electrical current. (7/14)

BACKGROUND: We describe herein the characteristics of lethal injuries caused by low-voltage electrical current (electrocution), the most frequent injury caused by electrical current. METHODS: Nine hundred forty-five cases over a period of 41 years (1965-2006) were reviewed, of which, 351 electrocution cases were identified. The descriptive statistical analyses were carried out with the application of SPSS 11.0 software. RESULTS: Electrocution accounted for 37.14% of all studied electricity-caused injuries. The average age of the victims was 35.25 years. The average age of male victims was 36.19 years and of female victims was 32.55 years. The distribution by gender showed a significant prevalence of the male sex (74.07%). Among the circumstances leading to electrocution, household accidents (78.06%) prevailed over occupational accidents (13.39%). Suicides were significantly rarer (7.41%). 66.10% of all electrocution cases occurred during the summer period from June through September. CONCLUSION: Household accidents prevail among the circumstances under which electrocution occurs, with an insignificant difference in the male/female proportion in this group. The majority of electrocutions occurred during the summer period (June-September). The results obtained in this research can help in the development of a differentiated strategy for the prevention of electrocution, while taking into consideration gender, age and season of the year.  (+info)

Beliefs about behavior account for age differences in the correspondence bias. (8/14)

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Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a legal penalty in which a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The crimes that are punishable by death vary by country, but typically include murder, treason, and espionage. In the United States, for example, federal and state laws allow for the use of capital punishment in cases involving murder, terrorism, and certain types of treason.

The methods used to carry out capital punishment also vary by country, but common methods include lethal injection, electrocution, hanging, and firing squad. The use of the death penalty is a controversial issue, with some people arguing that it is a necessary tool for deterring crime and protecting society, while others argue that it is a violation of human rights and that there is a risk of executing innocent people.

In medical terms, "punishment" is a consequence or intervention that is intended to decrease the likelihood of an undesirable behavior occurring again in the future. It is often used in the context of behavioral therapy and modification, particularly for addressing maladaptive behaviors in individuals with developmental disorders, mental health conditions, or substance use disorders.

Punishment can take various forms, such as response cost (removal of a positive reinforcer), time-out (removal of access to reinforcement), or aversive stimuli (presentation of an unpleasant stimulus). However, it is important to note that punishment should be used judiciously and ethically, with careful consideration given to the potential negative consequences such as avoidance, escape, or aggression. Additionally, positive reinforcement (rewarding desirable behaviors) is generally considered a more effective and sustainable approach to behavior change than punishment alone.

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  • The most widely accepted argument that is in favor of capital punishment is that fear deters people from committing crimes" (Caldwell). (exampleessays.com)
  • All you accomplish by that is to remind people that there's not much for a rational argument in favor of capital punishment. (sciforums.com)
  • Do Americans favor capital punishment? (bostonglobe.com)
  • Congo's shift towards abolition has been visible at the international level, where it voted in favor of all five UN General Assembly resolutions calling for a universal moratorium on capital punishment. (worldcoalition.org)
  • It is non-controversial to say that we live in a cultural moment-or, using the terminology of Philip Rieff, a therapeutic cultural moment -in which retributive justice as a whole is called into question (in favor of prevention and rehabilitation), of which capital punishment is but one highly visible form. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • The last executions in the United Kingdom were by hanging, and took place in 1964 , before capital punishment was suspended for murder in 1965 and finally abolished for murder in 1969 (1973 in Northern Ireland). (moviecultists.com)
  • Communal punishments for wrongdoing generally included blood money compensation by the wrongdoer, corporal punishment, shunning, banishment and execution. (wikipedia.org)
  • The issue of corporal punishment can polarize people instantly, and it's been that way in this country for a long time. (findlaw.com)
  • It is one of 18 states (plus the District of Columbia) to ban corporal punishment. (findlaw.com)
  • As of late 2022, 53 countries retain capital punishment, 111 countries have completely abolished it de jure for all crimes, seven have abolished it for ordinary crimes (while maintaining it for special circumstances such as war crimes), and 24 are abolitionist in practice. (wikipedia.org)
  • Defending himself against the accusation of capital crimes, Socrates famously asserted that the main concern should not be the value of a man's life, but the value of his life insofar as it is good and just. (crisismagazine.com)
  • condemned capital punishment in his 1764 treatise On Crimes and Punishments . (rationalwiki.org)
  • According to a Justice Department announcement, Barr directed Hugh Hurwitz, the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons, to adopt the revision to the Federal Execution Protocol, a maneuver that "[clears] the way for the federal government to resume capital punishment after a nearly two decade lapse, and bringing justice to victims of the most horrific crimes. (dailycaller.com)
  • According to Tawfik, the view held by the majority within domestic jurisprudence is to maintain capital punishment, but to apply it within a very limited scope, and only for "highly dangerous" crimes. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • Within hours of Barr's announcement, Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts introduced a bill to abolish capital punishment for federal crimes. (bostonglobe.com)
  • As tribal societies developed into social classes and humankind created its own self-governed republics, capital punishment became a common response to a variety of crimes , including sexual assault, treason, and various military offenses. (moviecultists.com)
  • Pope St. John Paul II was well-known for his vigorous opposition to capital punishment. (crisismagazine.com)
  • The ACLU's opposition to capital punishment incorporates the following fundamental concerns: The death penalty system in the US is applied in an unfair and unjust manner against people , largely dependent on how much money they have, the skill of their attorneys, race of the victim and where the crime took place. (moviecultists.com)
  • Why the opposition to capital punishment for someone convicted of premeditated murder? (religionandpolitics.org)
  • According to the Pew Research Center, the fraction of Americans supporting capital punishment dropped to 49 percent in 2016, the lowest level in four decades . (bostonglobe.com)
  • In February 1972, the California Supreme Court found that the death penalty constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the California state constitution and 107 condemned inmates were resentenced to life with the possibility of parole and removed from California's death row. (ca.gov)
  • In an interview with the Guardian, Carter calls on the US supreme court to reintroduce the ban on capital punishment that it imposed between 1972 and 1976. (moviecultists.com)
  • In 1976, with 66 percent of Americans still supporting capital punishment, the Supreme Court acknowledged progress made in jury guidelines and reinstated the death penalty under a "model of guided discretion. (moviecultists.com)
  • Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime, usually following an authorised, rule-governed process to conclude that the person is responsible for violating norms that warrant said punishment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Amnesty International declares that the death penalty breaches human rights, stating "the right to life and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. (wikipedia.org)
  • The new law replaced the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of release as the state's highest form of punishment. (findlaw.com)
  • The death penalty is the ultimate punishment available to the American legal system, and its pursuit suggests how seriously the state takes the offense for which it's being considered. (nymag.com)
  • Capital punishment or the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment where the state kills an individual as punishment for a crime . (rationalwiki.org)
  • [1] The Council of Europe prohibits the use of the death penalty by its members, and Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits the use of capital punishment. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Capital punishment is the infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime (Caldwell). (exampleessays.com)
  • On the contrary, the abolitionists claim that capital punishment is inhumane, does not deter crime, leaves too much room for error, and in some cases is racist and discriminatory ("Death Penalty" May 1). (exampleessays.com)
  • The Dilemma of Capital Punishment The definition of Capital Punishment is legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. (exampleessays.com)
  • If capital punishment were used more, there would be fewer inmates on death role. (exampleessays.com)
  • Senate President Harriette Chandler, a Worcester Democrat, opposes the death penalty and doesn't foresee Massachusetts reinstating capital punishment. (wgbh.org)
  • Finding that neither judicial economy nor fairness is served - because 97 percent of all capital cases are converted to lesser sentences after post-conviction judicial review - the task force recommended disqualifying mentally ill prisoners and the intellectually disabled from the death penalty, instituting a process to review the proportionality of capital sentences and creating a state-funded capital defender office. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • When he became governor in 2015, Tom Wolf imposed a moratorium on all death sentences pending results from the Pennsylvania Task Force and Advisory Committee on Capital Punishment. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Saad is also part of a campaign against capital punishment that calls for the suspension of death sentences. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • Any time this kind of mess happens, where there is such a huge miscarriage of justice, it raises the question about capital punishment in general, especially when the statistics suggest that many, many cases exist of persons on death row who are not there because they are guilty of the crime. (blogspot.com)
  • Capital punishment is not allowed in Russia due to a moratorium, and death sentences have not been carried out since August 2, 1996 . (moviecultists.com)
  • Suffolk Law Professor Russell G. Murphy discusses his new book, Voices of the Death Penalty Debate: A Citizen's Guide to Capital Punishment , in this podcast. (legaltalknetwork.com)
  • Refusal in america essay death penalty should capital punishment capital punishment. (thequayhouse.com)
  • Although Congolese law contemplates applying the death penalty to a wide range of offenses, capital punishment has in practice been rarely applied over the past 30 years. (worldcoalition.org)
  • He argues that the death penalty is unpredictable because it is difficult to tell which people, sentenced to capital punishment, will meet that sentence. (michellesparrowlaw.com)
  • Modern and ultra-modern thinking has grown increasingly intolerant of meting out criminal punishment that smacks of being "cruel" or "barbaric," which was not the case in 1791, when both the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments were enacted. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • While most cultures have historically used capital punishment, many countries, particularly Western and democratic ones, have moved, or are moving, away from the application of this punishment. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Egypt's judiciary has expanded the use of capital punishment in a historically unprecedented manner following the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • Judicial murder is the intentional and premeditated killing of an innocent person by means of capital punishment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Natalie essay about you will do the self-murder of punishment sprouts. (thequayhouse.com)
  • Moreover, the context of my argument for the justification and application of capital punishment will be limited to premeditated murder. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • The earliest set of recorded laws for capital punishment dates back to 1700BC in the city of Babylon. (exampleessays.com)
  • In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister of Canada, the Permanent Council of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops voiced its concern that Mr. Harper and the Canadian government are endorsing capital punishment for Canadians being tried by governing bodies in other countries. (cccb.ca)
  • Subjecting a terrorist to capital punishment plays right into his hands and only serves to encourage those who would follow in his lethal footsteps. (wbur.org)
  • On August 27, 1937, the California State Legislature replaced hanging as the method of capital punishment with lethal gas. (ca.gov)
  • It is also curious that most-if not all-proponents of assisted suicide would be opposed "in principle" to capital punishment, even when both procedures require the administration of lethal drugs. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • It would appear from the earliest legal codes recorded in human history that capital punishment was a moral-legal norm. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • Capital punishment is the best way to set an example for would be criminals so they will see the punishment if they commit a capital crime. (exampleessays.com)
  • If capital punishment were made illegal in all states, criminals would run wild because they would know that they would not receive any type of capital punishment. (exampleessays.com)
  • These and other important changes make the third edition of Capital Punishment an invaluable reference and research guide to this controversial issue. (infobasepublishing.com)
  • Tsarnaev has already received a benefit from being charged with a capital crime: he will be represented by one of the best capital punishment lawyers in the country. (wbur.org)
  • In spite of capital punishments many controversies, I believe capital punishment is the correct way to deal with a person who could perform such a heinous crime towards society. (exampleessays.com)
  • And here is the moral dilemma put bluntly-- Is it ethically a worse thing to have a criminal justice system that lets a guilty felon go unexecuted (being given instead perhaps life in prison without parole) or to have a system which regularly executes people who are not guilty of a capital crime? (blogspot.com)
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  • The increasingly pointless face of crime, coupled with a growing sense of exasperation over pandemic violent crime at both state and federal levels, guarantees that the debate over capital punishment not only will not disappear but will also intensify. (religionandpolitics.org)
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  • Here and polity networks of capital punishment: discursive essay on capital punishment for classics/classical studies canada essay. (thequayhouse.com)
  • These are two of several good reasons for opposing capital punishment on principle. (nymag.com)
  • Moreover, Dhemaji district units of Bengali Youth-Students' Federation, Sonowal Kachari Jatiya Parishad, All Bodo Students' Union, Jonai district unit of Takam Mising Porin Kebang demanded exemplary punishment to the accused and condemned the heinous incident. (sentinelassam.com)
  • Instead, they denounce capital punishment itself, and accuse the administration of changing its policy out of "raw political calculus" ( Slate ) and as "one more stunt to distract Americans" ( The Atlantic ). (bostonglobe.com)
  • Capital punishment is controversial, with many people, organisations, and religious groups holding differing views on whether or not it is ethically permissible. (wikipedia.org)
  • Capital punishment began to be seen by more and more people as state-sanctioned homicide while proponents took offense to the use of the term and proposed numerous questionable arguments on how killing a prisoner was not somehow homicide but instead an inherently necessary act. (rationalwiki.org)
  • So many people probably have so many different opinions about capital punishment. (exampleessays.com)
  • Nonetheless, since one out of ten people who receive capital punishment are usually innocent, capital punishment should not be placed upon all the time. (exampleessays.com)
  • Capital Punishment can also be beneficial because it can help regulate the population of people placed in prisons. (exampleessays.com)
  • From an ethical standpoint, it is a curious pattern needing explanation that people who are abolitionist regarding capital punishment and the taking of human adult life almost always reject giving the benefit of the doubt to human life growing in the womb. (religionandpolitics.org)
  • The families of the victims are not alone in their support of capital punishment. (exampleessays.com)
  • She says there's a lot of support to revive the debate in Massachusetts on capital punishment. (wgbh.org)
  • It was against that background that support for capital punishment, which had been falling since the 1950s, began to climb. (bostonglobe.com)
  • The basics of capital punishment laws in Connecticut are highlighted in the table below. (findlaw.com)
  • Capital punishment is a serious undermining of human dignity and of basic respect for human life," the members of the Council state. (cccb.ca)
  • It costs the state 12 times as much to try capital cases as noncapital homicide cases, much of which is due to required appeals. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • In the state house, capital punishment failed to pass by one vote. (freezerbox.com)
  • On the other hand, State president of the United Bodo People's Organization ( UBPO ), Manuranjan Basumatary, general secretary Pitambar Brahma, and chairperson Badal Mussahari also demanded for exemplary punishment to the culprit. (sentinelassam.com)
  • The term capital punishment was borrowed from the Latin capitalis ("[of/relating to] the head"), referring to the once-common method of execution by beheading. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Examining American inmates' last meal requests offers a window into the complex nature of capital punishment in the United States. (michigandaily.com)
  • Capital punishment saves and protects innocent people's lives. (exampleessays.com)
  • As a result, the task force noted that capital defendants "receive poor representation, resulting in reversible errors and, in some cases, the risk of convicting an innocent person. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Despite the stance of a great number of Christian churches, including the Catholic Church, against capital punishment, execution rates are the highest in strongly Christian states. (michigandaily.com)
  • LAKHIMPUR: Agitation programmes continue in Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts to demand capital punishment to Rintu Sarmah, the alleged killer of Nandita Saikia, the student of Moridhol College in Dhemaji district, who breathed her last on Wednesday after being severely injured during the attack by the accused on August 21 in Dhemaji town. (sentinelassam.com)
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  • All con-arguments below are from J. Gordon Melton's The Churches Speak on Capital Punishment , a helpful compiliation of various church's statements on this subject. (tektonics.org)
  • Surveys show that over seventy percent of the US population supports capital punishment (Kohut). (exampleessays.com)
  • Providing approximately 25 percent new material and significant updates, Capital Punishment, Third Edition is especially current. (infobasepublishing.com)
  • Should Capital Punishment stay in effect in this country? (exampleessays.com)
  • This sets our country well apart from the rest of the industrialized world, which has spent the latter half of the twentieth century not just divesting itself of capital punishment, but loudly calling for the rest of the planet to do the same. (freezerbox.com)
  • In 1995, in its very first judgement, the Court dealt with the highly sensitive issue of constitutionality of capital punishment. (lu.se)
  • This volume has certainly been put together with a high degree of professionalism, and would be exceptionally useful to anyone engaged in research on some aspect of capital punishment. (infobasepublishing.com)
  • However, she argues that Egyptian society as a whole needs to commence a social dialogue regarding capital punishment and the extent of the efficiency of the justice system in its capacity to execute. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • Suffering to the criminal can never be justified by the notion of vindictive punishment. (rationalwiki.org)
  • It is now likely that the National Assembly will soon introduce a law abolishing capital punishment as part of broader reforms of the Congolese Criminal Code. (worldcoalition.org)
  • But But the total number of countries that have abolished capital punishment is on the rise as well, the group found. (csmonitor.com)
  • And it is a bit jarring to see the United States, leader of the free world, sitting on a list of countries that still use capital punishment, when said list reads like a catalog of repression. (freezerbox.com)
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  • Yet the controversy overshadowed only briefly a more contentious and longstanding debate in theological circles over eternal punishment. (crisismagazine.com)
  • The public defenders that get worse results are public defender offices in the counties that are not nearly as well resourced and not nearly as well trained," said Marc Bookman, co-director of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Revitalizing the two discursive and other benefits of the guide on capital punishment. (thequayhouse.com)
  • Other recent attempts to restore capital punishment in the Massachusetts have failed. (wgbh.org)
  • There was little political discussion, however, around the constitutional provision abolishing capital punishment. (worldcoalition.org)
  • every European nation has abolished capital punishment save for Belarus, a dictatorship . (nymag.com)
  • By virtue of nothing save timing, the furor over capital punishment came to a head just as a verdict was handed down in the case of Louise Woodward, the Boston area au pair accused of murdering an infant in her custody. (freezerbox.com)