A group of legal experts called the Death Penalty Committee of the Constitution Project recently recommended that doctors or other medical personnel supervise all medical aspects of executions, even when barred by their governing bodies. This week, several Harvard Medical School doctors responded with a scathing article in which they recommended that medical boards revoke such doctors’ certification. Robert D. Truog, professor of anaesthesia (pediatrics) at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Mark A. Rockoff, professor of anaesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital, were coauthors of the article.
