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TIL: As to not betray the Hippocratic oath, doctors (also nurses, etc.) are prohibited from administering lethal injections used for capital punishment. The task is left to under trained and unqualified orderlies and technicians, resulting in slip-ups which may lead to extreme pain to the inmate.

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