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Anesthesiologists Delay Calif. Execution
The planned execution of Michael Morales was delayed until Tuesday night after two anesthesiologists refused to participate because of ethical concerns.
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Prison officials rescheduled the execution for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and said they would employ a different technique: administering a fatal overdose of barbiturate in lieu of the three-drug cocktail typically used in lethal injections.
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If Morales is not executed before midnight, when his death warrant expires, a new execution date would be more than a month away.
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The postponement stemmed from confusion over the roles of two anesthesiologists whose presence as safeguards against a botched execution was ordered last week by U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel
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The apparent sticking point was the physicians' obligation, under procedures specified by a federal appeals court in a ruling Sunday, to intervene if Morales appeared to regain consciousness or displayed signs of pain. The court said the anesthesiologists would then have to take steps to render the inmate unconscious or "otherwise alleviate the painful effects'' of the drugs.
"Any such intervention would clearly be medically unethical,'' the doctors said in a written statement today. "As a result, we have withdrawn from participation in this current process.''
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/21/MNG14HC1HG16.DTL
Prison officials rescheduled the execution for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and said they would employ a different technique: administering a fatal overdose of barbiturate in lieu of the three-drug cocktail typically used in lethal injections.
More
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1643533
If Morales is not executed before midnight, when his death warrant expires, a new execution date would be more than a month away.
...
The postponement stemmed from confusion over the roles of two anesthesiologists whose presence as safeguards against a botched execution was ordered last week by U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel
...
The apparent sticking point was the physicians' obligation, under procedures specified by a federal appeals court in a ruling Sunday, to intervene if Morales appeared to regain consciousness or displayed signs of pain. The court said the anesthesiologists would then have to take steps to render the inmate unconscious or "otherwise alleviate the painful effects'' of the drugs.
"Any such intervention would clearly be medically unethical,'' the doctors said in a written statement today. "As a result, we have withdrawn from participation in this current process.''
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/21/MNG14HC1HG16.DTL
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The state did not immediately say whether it would comply with the conditions laid down by U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel for the execution, which is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at San Quentin State Prison. A lawyer for Morales said the condemned inmate would probably appeal the ruling.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/21/MNGFFHCC784.DTL