FULTON, GA - A lawsuit seeking to require the state medical board to punish physicians who participate in the execution of condemned inmates in Georgia has been dismissed by a Fulton County Superior Court judge.

Lawyers for seven physicians, including three in Georgia, sought to have the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners uphold American Medical Association guidelines that prohibit doctors from involvement in executions.

Lawyers for the state argued that the doctors had no legal standing to sue, in part because they could show no specific harm. Further, the lawyers for the state argued that state law is the determining factor in the administration of lethal injection in Georgia, not AMA ethical guidelines... Read more.

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