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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Murder By Death
I don't know if you all have been following the machinations in the latest execution in California. It's been pretty straight-forwardly reported. You need a Dr. on hand, the docs backed out due to ethical concerns. So now, they're just going to O.D. Morales on barbituates, which will not require an attendant physician.

What is interesting is this bit, which is hidden in about the tenth graf of the story. It refers to the circumstances of another execution delay causing a need to seek another warrant for Morales execution:
Seeking another warrant could prove difficult for the state, however, since the original sentencing judge, Charles McGrath, joined Morales this month in asking Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger for clemency in the case.

McGrath said he no longer believed the credibility of a jailhouse informant whose testimony helped land Morales on death row.
So it turns out that the original sentencing judge has concerns about the fairness of Morales's trial? Well, we wouldn't want to go there, now would we? Having any further pesky issues in the way of efficient execution is sooo annoying.

Aside from the moral issues involved in state sponsored murder, our justice system is just way too imperfect to implement a penalty with no redress. I watched how the system actually operates, and it's like the old saying about politics and sausage. Executing people in such a system is madeness.
Written at 10:30 AM by Greyhair.
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Blogger samrocha said...
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