A second execution attempt strains legal and ethical standards.
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Christa Pike’s botched execution in Tennessee last week raises a host of questions about what comes next, what Gov. Bill Lee should do, and what is meant by “cruel and unusual.” These are legal questions, but they are also ethical and political questions, and they demand our consideration.
As an ethicist, I’m interested in the ought questions.
Lydia Dugdale is a physician and ethicist at Columbia University and author of The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom.