Abstract
ation to discuss the impact of the death penalty on the public's health. This Association has a policy not to meet P c) ~~in states that failed to ratify the Equal Rights AmendKs(e ~ 5 ment, or in cities that do not fluoridate the water. Yet, here we are in a state that is the first to use pharmacologic agents in lethal doses to execute human beings; where health professionals were directly involved in specific activities leading up to the legal homicide. The Hippocratic Oath, the World Medical Association's statement of policy on medical involvement in torture, the American Medical Association's policy on physician involvement in death by injection are dead letters. I am not here, however, to make a case for or against the death penalty as a responsible judicial act, or as preventive against heinous crimes, or as a way for society to gain vengeance against the malefactor. I am here simply to make the case that in our society, a state policy supporting the death penalty is a policy against the public's health, and therefore should be opposed by all of us who serve in that capacity.
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