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PRIMUM NON NOCERE 33 THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF DELEGATES RESOLUTION The American Medical Association (AMA) took its first decisive action on the matter of lethal injection in July 1980. The Judicial Council produced a report that noted the receipt of numerous inquiries on the issue from doctors and medical societies. Opinions within the profession were mixed, and mostly corresponded to more general attitudes on capital punishment. The Judicial Council acknowledged the possible validity of the sundry arguments both for and against chemical executions, but maintained that the concept ofprimum non nocere (“first, do no harm”) was decisive.
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