Ah Privatization... Apparently They Subcontracted The Execution Of Troy Davis

[WillyT]

So this morning I refresh my #toomuchdoubt (Troy Davis) Twitter Feed and see this:

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#TroyDavis was executed by private company called @correcthealth. Only in America. #sad #deathpenalty #privatization #toomuchdoubt
28 minutes ago

Tweetlink: http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23toomuchdoubt

No link to an article... so I Google "Correct Health" and get this ".org" site:

Link: http://www.correcthealth.org/

Which states, "Our primary purpose is to provide healthcare services to patients in correctional facilities."

This doesn't quite prove the Tweet, so I Google "Correct Health Troy Davis" and find this:

breakingpoint
Commented 4 hours ago in Crime

“the companies hired to k9ll Troy Davis were "Correct Health" & "Rainbow Medical Assoc."

Orwellian or what?”

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/breakingpoint/troy-davis-executed_n_975109_109185705.html

So... I Google "Rainbow Medical Association" and find this article from 2005:

Doctors' role in executions debated
Death penalty foes go after licenses.

By CARLOS CAMPOS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/01/05

<snip>

The doctors' identities are carefully protected — as are all involved in lethal injections, including prison officials who activate the plungers that deliver the deadly dose. The contract providing for the doctors' services at an execution forbids the Department of Corrections from disclosing their names. The doctors have a reason for wanting anonymity: Their medical licenses are under attack from death penalty opponents.

Activists say doctors who participate in executions violate the Hippocratic oath and the American Medical Association's Code of Medical Ethics. Dr. Arthur Zitrin of New York, who calls himself a death penalty "abolitionist," has begun challenging physicians who participate in executions.

<And...>

Prison officials say the challenge to Rao's medical license dramatically drove up the cost of hiring doctors to attend executions. The prison system now pays Rainbow Medical Associates $18,000 per execution. Before Rao's license was challenged, the department paid $850 per execution, said Bill Amideo, a lawyer for the state agency.

The cost jumped because the doctors had to purchase liability insurance to protect themselves from possible license challenges, Amideo said. While he expected the prison system would have to pay more for the doctor's services, perhaps as much as $6,000 per execution, "we ended up having to pay three times as much to get this contract," Amideo said.

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More: http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104067

:wtf:

:kick:

[asjr]

1. Outsourced Executions--the Georgia Way.

[Overseas]

2. Privatizing execution.

Disgusting.

[Sirveri]

3. Those 'Doctors' deserve to lose their license. They are in direct violation of their oath.

Period.

[City Lights]

4. Unbelievable!

Thanks for the info!

[CarmanK]

5. PA administered the death cocktail! 2 docs declared him dead!

So, taxpayers paid the privateers to kill and then declare. While the Physician's Assistant administered the drugs, the doctors stood outside the death chamber and only emerged to declare DIXON dead. The Coroner could have done that and maybe saved taxpayers some money. You would think that when a physician has to take an oath to DO NO HARM, that the society might get the CLUE that they cannot MURDER and thus with the docs out of the picture, SOCIETY cannot murder. We need to return to the days when just anyone could HANG A MAN and we probably wouldn't have to pay so much money for the privilege. Maybe in this case, McPhail's son could have pulled the rope and gotten the revenge he so needed.

[Capitalocracy]

6. Considering what private prisons have done to incarceration rates...

hiring private businesses to kill people is a very, very frightening proposal.

[Lint Head]

7. Private corporate torture is next.

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. How can you indemnify yourself against a license challenge?

Your license won't get revoked for malpractice if you have insurance?

Can I get some DUI insurance from that company?

[RevStPatrick]

9. Have we entered the age of executions for profit?

Talk about slippery slopes!

[WillyT]

10. Kick !!!

:kick:

[fasttense]

11. What happened to first do no harm????

Some Doctors will do anything for a buck.

[Cali_Democrat]

12. Dayum

WTF indeed :banghead: