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.
Doctors will not perform lethal injection. It goes against the Hippocratic Oath:“First do no harm”
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.