Abstract In October 2003 the Supreme Court of the United States allowed Arkansas officials
to force Charles Laverne Singleton, a schizophrenic prisoner convicted of murder, to take …

Currently, the United States is the only country in the so-called developed Western world
that continues to execute prisoners. 1 Since 2008, in order to avoid construing the death …

Among the arguments for abolishing the insanity defense there is the one that politicians
often appeal to: the defense makes it too easy for criminals to evade punishment, and to …

[IJdiots and lunatics are not chargeable for their own acts, if committed when under these
incapacities: no, not even for treason itself. Also, if a man in his sound memory commits a …

In the United States there are at least ten states which permit execution by lethal injection.
Prison doctors do not themselves administer the lethal injection, but they do supervise the …

Do prisoners evade punishment should they voluntarily end their lives while serving a prison
sentence? In order to provide a meaningful answer to this question, one must first carefully …

Giving like treatment to like cases has frequently been described as central to the concept of
justice. No less frequently, justice has been said to involve giving each person that which is …

Those who work with the condemned often come to reject the death penalty not only in
individual cases, and not only on the ground that it is poorly implemented. They tend to …

Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it
is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can …

Those who argue against physician participation in state mandated executions tend to
bracket the question of whether the death penalty should be abolished. I argue that these …