Involuntarily Medicating Condemned Incompetents for the Purpose of Rendering Them Sane and Thereby Subject to Execution

Matthew S. Collins

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Involuntarily Medicating Condemned Incompetents for the Purpose of Rendering Them Sane and Thereby Subject to Execution

Author: Matthew S. Collins (Washington University School of Law)

Abstract

Keywords: Patients -- Civil rights, Patient refusal of treatment, Capital punishment of offenders with mental disabilities, Informed consent (Medical law)

How to Cite: Collins, M. (1992) “Involuntarily Medicating Condemned Incompetents for the Purpose of Rendering Them Sane and Thereby Subject to Execution”, Washington University Law Review. 70(4).