Psychiatric reflections on the death penalty.
Capital punishment is outdated, immoral, wasteful, cruel, brutalizing, unfair, irrevocable, useless, dangerous, and obstructive to justice. In addition, psychiatric observations reveal that it generates disease through the torture of death row; it perverts the identity of physicians from trials to prison wards to executions; and, paradoxically, it breeds more murder than it deters.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002203:Capital Punishment; D003334:Coroners and Medical Examiners; D003417:Criminal Psychology; D003418:Criminology; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005104:Expert Testimony; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups; D009014:Morals; D011287:Prejudice; D011570:Psychiatry; D012539:Scapegoating; D013405:Suicide; D014481:United States