Although the Eighth Amendment(VIII) to the United States Constitution being the Bill of Right that prohibits unusual punishments and cruel, the debate whether death penalty constitute cruel and unusual punishment remains unsolved puzzle in the United States or in some States. As some states have mandatory death penalties in certain cases, the Supreme Court found these laws unconstitutional (Woodson v. North Carolina 1976) and they actually violates the Eighth Amendment (Furman v. Georgia 1972). However, using these examples I am not saying that Charles Laverne Singleton should have been freed because he killed someone.
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The first dilemma this situation would have to doctors, is the contraction of the American Medical Association code of ethics and policies. Doctors under oath are required to protect lives and to gain public confidence in preserving life where hopes permits but not to take life. This situation strictly put doctors in an awkward situation. Instead of them to adhering and remain obligated to their ethical conducts, which is against and prohibits involvement of capital punishment, the government is forcing them kill. Also it is wrong to put doctors with crisis of their conscience. The physicians are supposed to use their clinical skills to promote health and welfare of individuals. But their judgment to be used in the purpose and of preparing patients eligible to be executed, it undermines the basic foundation of medicine (American Medical Association 2007). Additionally, the Society of Correctional Physicians disagree with the view of government to think that physicians should be made part of legal apparatus to prepare patients sane to be executed. The SCP, also denies that physicians should not even supposed to administer lethal injection even where the circumstances justifies death of an individual. They argue that their job is with no under permission whether legal or illegal to promote capital punishment. When doctors graduates from medicine school they swear an oath under the principle contained in the passage of “To my patients: I will commit myself to healing, whenever possible, and comforting ways, with hope and honesty….. I will respect my patients’ autonomy and dignity, in living and dying” (Harvard Medical School of Dental Medicine: the oath of class
In the Criminal justice system, the government is responsible to uphold social control, punish those who violates the law …show more content…
The first dilemma this situation would have to doctors, is the contraction of the American Medical Association code of ethics and policies. Doctors under oath are required to protect lives and to gain public confidence in preserving life where hopes permits but not to take life. This situation strictly put doctors in an awkward situation. Instead of them to adhering and remain obligated to their ethical conducts, which is against and prohibits involvement of capital punishment, the government is forcing them kill. Also it is wrong to put doctors with crisis of their conscience. The physicians are supposed to use their clinical skills to promote health and welfare of individuals. But their judgment to be used in the purpose and of preparing patients eligible to be executed, it undermines the basic foundation of medicine (American Medical Association 2007). Additionally, the Society of Correctional Physicians disagree with the view of government to think that physicians should be made part of legal apparatus to prepare patients sane to be executed. The SCP, also denies that physicians should not even supposed to administer lethal injection even where the circumstances justifies death of an individual. They argue that their job is with no under permission whether legal or illegal to promote capital punishment. When doctors graduates from medicine school they swear an oath under the principle contained in the passage of “To my patients: I will commit myself to healing, whenever possible, and comforting ways, with hope and honesty….. I will respect my patients’ autonomy and dignity, in living and dying” (Harvard Medical School of Dental Medicine: the oath of class