The World Medical Association (Resolution on Euthanasia Adopted General Assembly 2002) condemns euthanasia
whether by lethal injection or by medically assisted suicide, and urges all domestic medical associations to refrain from complicity in such practice, even if domestic law professes to legalise it.
Consider the budget - driven approach taken
by two local Kentucky lawyers, Public Defender David Barron and state attorney, Jeff Middendorf, who played key roles in Supreme Court case Baze v. Rees, that addresses
whether Kentucky's
lethal injection drug protocol amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.