If a person is on death row and gets sick, should they be treated?

Yes, He deserves to be treated just as any other inmate. He may get a pardon or a stay of execution and then what??

this is a tough subject, the person is going to die either way, but is inhuman to kill someone who is sick when they can be helped, but it also waste of money to help someone who is going to be die.

I think as long as he is still alive he should not have to suffer. They should at least give him the choice of being treated or not. Even if he is going to die anyways. You never know he might get a reprieve at the last minute and not have to die.

It's a tough issue: doctors swear an oath to "do no harm," and presumably this includes providing treatment even to a person you know is going to die. Then again, we're *all* going to die at some point (sadly enough, immortality has not yet been perfected :)), right? An inmate has a prescribed execution date, but is that enough reason to stop treating an inmate like a person entirely? Treating an ill person isn't always just about stopping the immediate symptoms and giving them a long life -- a person sentenced to die by lethal injection or electrocution shouldn't be forced to die slowly or live for a year (while the legal system decides whether he should be killed or not) in horrid pain. There's other reasons to treat a condemned person too -- it could reveal systemic abuse (guards should not dole out punishment; they are "technically" there to protect prisoners from each other, prevent them from escaping, and ensuring their health within the confines of the prison), malnourishment, corruption, etc. It may also help the medical community learn something new about treating an illness or other Official Condition of Nastiness(tm). "Do no harm" doesn't literally translate to "you must treat patients you don't think deserve treatment," else we wouldn't have this idiotic problem of jerkwad pharmacists (who don't even swear that oath anyway) deciding they're not going to dispense "Plan B" even though their employer cheerfully sells it. But it *does* generally translate to a notion of "hey, you went to school to learn how to heal people -- here's a sick person, please heal him. What happens to him next month or next year isn't your problem -- you're *giving* him that lifespan regardless of what he does with it."

I don't think he should have to suffer and I think it would be the best thing to do to treat him and let him die as comfortable as possible. No one likes being in pain, even if they're doing to die anyway. They need to die peacefully and comfortably, that's what I think, in MOST situations. There could be exceptions though.

He did a crime bad enough to land himself there then NO