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Doctors of Death and the Medicalization of State Murder
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2005
by Michael Rigby
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2005, page 23
Doctors of Death and the Medicalization
Filed under:
Medical Misconduct,
Death Penalty/Death Row,
Death Penalty.
Locations:
Georgia,
United States of America.
of State Murder
by Michael Rigby
Prisoners often wonder if prison medical personnel really have their best interests at heart. But in the case of Sanjeeva Rao, a Georgia prison doctor, there is no doubt. He aims to see them dead.
When the state ...
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