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When Treatment Leads to Execution: Mental Health and the Law

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Author: Ronald J. Comer

Princeton University

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This video presents a case in which a convicted murderer with schizophrenia faces execution. Lawyers and doctors are interviewed, arguing both sides of the question of whether he is mentally competent to be executed. If his symptoms are lessened through drug treatment, he will become eligible for execution. As a result, some doctors refuse to treat him. As you watch, consider the ethical and legal dilemmas that this situation poses for clinicians.

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1. The case in this video centers on which issue?

2. The clinical practitioners in this video case were confronted by each of the following, except:

3. The man in this video had a right to resist medication treatment on the basis of ____________.

4. Issues of patient dangerousness come into play in each of the following kinds of cases, except:

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