Executioner/Doctor

There was a very badop-ed published in the NY TimesSaturday by the writer/cardiologist, Dr. Sandeep Jauhar. It's called "Why It's OK for Doctors to Participate in Executions" and that pretty much tells you all you need know. If you were to read something online entitled "Why It's OK for Rapists to Babysit Your Child" you would feel the same filthy layer of scum descend upon your skin as I felt when I read Dr Jauhar's inexplicable ode to Doctors of Death.The piece comes on the heels of a recent decision by the good ol' state of Arkansas to execute 8 men on death row over the next 11 days--- not because their crimes were particularly heinous or irrefutable, or just from sheer coincidence, or some other fluke of timing in the sentencing--- but rather because the state's supply of IV drugs used in executions is due to expire by the end of the month. There's enough in that last batch, apparently, to knock off 8 inmates. So...while the iron is hot....Dr Jauhar makes the error of assuming that capital punishment will never go away, that all we can do as a society is to figure out ways of rendering it in a less mendacious, less barbaric, more telegenic fashion. And who better to assure that a lethal drug cocktail will be administered with elan and efficacy than a practicing physician? After all, medical errors are the 3rd leading cause of death in our great country! Allegedly.I need to break Dr Jauhar's piece down paragraph by excruciating paragraph...
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