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Capital Punishment
POSITION STATEMENT
Approved by the Board of Trustees, July 2008
Approved by the Assembly, May 2008
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"Policy documents are approved by the APA Assembly and Board of Trustees… These are …position statements that define APA official policy on specific subjects…" -- APA Operations Manual. |
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The Board of Trustees voted to approve the proposed APA Position Statement: Adoption of AMA Statements on Capital Punishment, July 2008.
AMA POLICY E-2.06 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Issued July 1980. Updated June 1994 based on the report “Physician Participation in Capital Punishment,” adopted December 1992, (JAMA. 1993; 270: 365-368); updated June 1996 based on the report “Physician Participation in Capital Punishment: Evaluations of Prisoner Competence to be Executed; Treatment to Restore Competence to be Executed,” adopted in June 1995; Updated December1999; and Updated June 2000 based on the report “Defining Physician Participation in State Executions,” adopted June 1998.
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