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Francis Boyle Acts to Revoke Board Certification for Georgia Execution Doctor

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ? May 6, 2010 Francis Boyle Acts to Revoke Board Certification for Georgia Execution Doctor: In response to an article published May 4 in the Washington Post on the American Board of Anesthesiologists decertifying Execution Doctors , Francis Boyle, Professor of Law, University of Illinois , Champaign-Urbana, sent a letter to the American Board of Emergency Medicine regarding Dr Carlo Anthony Musso of Georgia. In his letter Professor Boyle states that ? Despite these {A.M.A.} nationally recognized standards for medical ethics, it has recently come to my attention that one of your Board Certified Physicians, Dr. Carlo Anthony Musso of Jonesboro, Georgia, has a contract with the State of Georgia to supervise their executions and has participated personally in at least one recent execution that I am aware of...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on May 07, 2010 (boomark / email).