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Jay Chapman (physician)

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Jay Chapman is the American physician and forensic pathologist who, in 1977, created the current three drug protocol used for execution in capital punishment cases in the United States. [1][2] Chapman was Chief Medical Examiner for State of Oklahoma when he developed the method.[3]

References

  1. ^ Boyer Sagert, Kelly (2007). The 1970s. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 37–38. ISBN 0-313-33919-8.
  2. ^ Grady, Denise. "Doctors See Way to Cut Suffering in Executions". Retrieved 2009-12-11.
  3. ^ Jacquette, Dale. Dialogues on the Ethics of Capital Punishment (New Dialogues in Philosophy). Rowman Littlefield Publishers, Inc. pp. 98–99. ISBN 0-7425-6143-7.