Is Participation of Doctors in the Administration of Death Penalty Legitimate The question has been raised whether it is moral for a doctor to participate in the administration of death penalty . This is an issue that many industry professionals have strong opinions about, regardless of their personal beliefs about the death penalty in general. Doctors are traditionally practitioners of the healing arts; Is using this knowledge to execute someone a corruption of their professional ethics? To fully understand the issues surrounding physician participation in the death penalty, three major areas of analysis need to be explored. First we must examine the ethical justification for the death penalty. If the death penalty itself is morally unjustified, then doctors' participation in it is, by definition, wrong. Second, aside from justifying the death penalty, do convicted criminals retain a right to health that the death penalty would violate? Finally, we will look at the doctor's special duties: Even if the death penalty in general is justified, is there a more subtle violation of ethical duties by inviting the doctor to participate in the trial? Ethical Justification Returning to our first sphere of inquiry, is the death penalty justified: does it violate the prisoner's human right to health? Traditionally, two main explanations have been offered for the death penalty: deterrence and revenge. The evidence on deterrence is dubious at best. On the one hand, the statistics do not indicate the existence of a significant deterrent effect. A United Nations committee studying capital punishment found that "currently available data shows no correlation between the existence of capital... according to paper... seen as a healthy relationship. For those doctors who believe in capital punishment of death, there should be no penalty for participating in a legal proceeding, which they do in the best interests of society and in the name of justice Conclusion Examining the justifications behind the death penalty and the reasons that human rights criminals believe be convicted of a crime, we have been unable to deduce any legitimate reason why doctors, or any other healthcare personnel, should be excluded from participating in executions, while some doctors argue that the participation of doctors in the administration of the death sentence death equals a betrayal of the death penalty As precepts of medicine, I have attempted to provide an alternative perspective on the situation. Just as no doctor should be forced to assist in an execution, no doctor should be prohibited from doing so.