A Fresh Take On The Death Penalty

The Scientific Activist questions the humaneness of lethal injections.

Specifically, the fact that most people in the medical community refuse to participate in executions for the simple reason that is the Hippocratic Oath.

As a result, non-medically trained technicians are the ones that perform the executions.

Which wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that if you don't know how to execute them properly, they will die the most horrible death possible - paralyzed and in pain.

There's the dilemma. The question (and therefore, the debate) is, given the large possibility of inhumaneness that might occur with a non-medico, should the medical community be forced to cooperate with lethal injections, or do they reserve the right to refuse to cooperate?

Thoughts?