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  • My role in execution is one of end of life.

  • Instead of a carcinoma, that individual’s

  • dying of a court order.

  • But he’s still dying.

  • Were trained do no harm, preserve life

  • whenever there’s any hope of doing so,

  • the concept of the Hippocratic oath and everything we

  • stand for medicine.

  • Medical organizations have strongly

  • worded opposition to physician participation in execution.

  • And believe me I’ve read them, and I understand them.

  • I just don’t agree with them.

  • I’ve almost had two different careers, an emergency

  • medicine career and a correctional medicine career.

  • If you were to ask me during residency or even shortly

  • after residency that I’d be working in a jail or prison,

  • I wouldve thought you crazy.

  • There’s just no way.

  • But indeed that’s where my career path took me.

  • [radio chatter]

  • Shortly after I had started working corrections,

  • particularly when our company started growing,

  • I got a phone call from the Department of Corrections

  • about helping out with the execution process, which

  • here in Georgia is lethal injection.

  • Sometimes in life you have to take the bad with the good,

  • and as part of being a leader, as part

  • of being a totality of a health care solution.

  • I called him back and I said, well, let me go witness one.

  • Watching a heart monitor, I kept

  • looking for panels to try to defibrillate the individual.

  • It was almost like a reflex.

  • The one thought I had over and over again was

  • if it were me there or a family member,

  • would I want somebody like me there?

  • And the answer was yes.

  • Absolutely.

  • I would want somebody like me there

  • if I had a family member who had done something horrible

  • and ended up on death row.

  • I’m not a advocate for capital punishment.

  • If it’s ultimately arbitrary and very expensive

  • and not necessary.

  • But that’s notthat doesn’t impact what I do and why I do it.

  • [Archival recording] “… five minutes elapsed time.

  • Stand by for the doctors are now

  • preparing to enter the execution chambers

  • to check for life signs.

  • One of the physicians is now in the process of doing this.

  • The first physician is still in the process

  • of checking for life signs.”

  • We first started doing it, we approached

  • is just a matter of fact of providing

  • health care in a correctional environment.

  • As our involvement became public,

  • I realized that this was as controversial

  • an issue as it was.

  • When local media leaked out that I was the physician that

  • was participating in the execution process,

  • I was contacted by advocacy groups

  • to stop my participation.

  • They oftentimes would protest in both my home and my office

  • and send me emails, get on me with social media,

  • and even challenge my license.

  • Their goal is to hopefully end capital punishment

  • by stopping the people who perform execution

  • and lethal injection services.

  • [news broadcast] “Travis Hittson is scheduled

  • to be executed tonight at 7:00.

  • The 45-year-old former Navy crewman

  • was convicted of killing fellow sailor

  • Conway Utterbeck in April 1992.

  • According to court documents — “

  • Quite frankly I’d love to hang up my cleats

  • and not do this anymore.

  • As long as there’s a need and as long as theyre

  • going to continue to perform executions in Georgia,

  • then I think those individuals on death row

  • deserve to have a physician present

  • at the time of their death.

  • [crowd singing Amazing Grace]

  • All right.

  • Perception is reality.

  • If most people believe in capital punishment,

  • that’s our reality today.

  • The medicalizition of execution

  • I think does impact public perception.

  • Does that make us more comfortable with capital punishment?

  • Probably.

My role in execution is one of end of life.

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死囚醫生。我為什麼要參與執行死刑? (Death Row Doctor: Why I Take Part in Executions | Op-Docs)

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