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 World Medical Association Resolution on Physician Participation in Capital Punishment
Adopted by the 34th World Medical Assembly Lisbon, Portugal, September 28 - October 2, 1981
and amended by the 52nd WMA General Assembly in Edinburgh, Scotland during October 2000

RESOLVED, that it is unethical for physicians to participate in capital punishment, in any way, or during any step of the execution process.


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