God bless the doctors…and the U.S. Constitution…Sanity prevails, if only for the moment, in California.
Morales, 46, was supposed to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. But the execution was put off until at least Tuesday night after two anesthesiologists backed out because of ethical concerns that they might have to advise the executioner if the inmate woke up or appeared to suffer pain.
“Any such intervention would clearly be medically unethical,” the doctors, whose identities were not released, said in a statement. “As a result, we have withdrawn from participation in this current process.”
The doctors had been brought in by a federal judge after Morales’ attorneys argued that the three-part lethal injection process violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
Maybe the state will pay for him to become an abortion doctor.
What a concept. Standing up for what one believes to be the proper thing to do.
Standing up for preserving the understanding that helping life is a worthy cause …
OT Here’s a new article about the Depleted Uranium, it looks like the truth might finally come out
BTW, I’m not for the death penalty… well, maybe in Rickys case…
I’m not for the death penalty (with the possible exception of treason because that crime is against every American, while murder is against only one other person) because it’s a better punishment to make the criminals live out their entire life in jail at hard labor every day, on a vegetarian diet, with no desserts, no cigarettes (we pay for their health care–why let them smoke?) no TV or entertainment & a shaved head. (Why waste shampoo & haircuts or meat on them?) Make them work all their life & give the money they earn to the victim’s family.
Besides, they are sedated when they are taken to the electric chair or lethal injection today.
Why make it easy for them?
If we are going to have executions–the criminal needs to die just like his victims did–screaming & fighting for their life in terror while being dragged to their death against their will. Not sedated & serene thanks to drugs.
Keep it real. We’re killing these criminals–they’re not at a hotel going for a massage.
Brad… the only "open threads" I’ve seen here lately have been the young turks ones.
Don’t forget the occasional open-thread works like a fishing-line sometimes.
Peace!!! 😉
Brad-
I’m off subject but wanted to mention that……….
Your traffic rank on Google just went from 48,500 to 45,791 in the last week.
That’s a big jump. You picked up a bunch of readers!
G.
They keep killing the wrong people.
This man is [temporarily] spared (which is good.)
Yes, for some reason, thanks to Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA 8th Dist.), the Green River killer remains alive in a prison cell.
American justice sux.
I’m not sure I agree that a man who admits to raping and murdering a teen girl should not be put to death.
But what I cannot believe this story on BradBlog missed, was that Ken Starr is involved in the case, most notably in this case which has unarguably forged documents coming from the Starr (defense) side. Good ‘ol Starr, Mr. Morality himself…..
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/a...AGOVHAF7I1.DTL
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Culhane — described by Senior as a veteran of capital cases who came well-recommended — obtained a declaration from a prosecution witness recanting her trial testimony, which was included in Morales’ clemency application Jan. 27. Prosecutors claimed it was forged and submitted a contradictory declaration from the same witness.
A day later, after questioning Culhane, defense lawyers filed new declarations that the investigator presented from five jurors supporting clemency. Prosecutors then submitted conflicting statements from the same jurors, two of whom said their names were misspelled on the purported declarations.
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In case you can’t read between the lines: Defense appeal evidence was FORGED.
The death penalty is always cruel and unusual. A civilized society does not execute its own.
Capital punishment is an American value.