Posted on 02/21/2006 5:05:06 PM PST by Perdogg
I would note that most victims of automobile accidents are innocent. But we let the carnage go on because while there is no such thing as a perfect system, it is judged better than not having it. So we judge that the imperfect justice of a death for a death for the victims of certain homocides is better than not having it.
Easy for us to judge, but we're not the poor schmuck that spends half his life in prison for something he didn't do - or worse, gets the needle for something he didn't do. Like I said, the solution is swift retribution against the jury, the prosecutor and prosecution witnesses in case they get it wrong. Then they'll be more careful than they have been.
We don't know the names of these doctors, because if the state medical board finds out who they are, they can investigate them and possibly charge them with ethics violations, and strip them of their licenses. Perhaps the anger is better directed at the judge who made this ruling.
I want to know why they even were there for crying out loud!
Because the court ordered the state to have a "medical professional" present to administer the lethal injectipn. From the article:
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel gave prison officials a choice last week: bring in doctors to ensure Morales was properly anesthetized, or skip the usual paralyzing and heart-stopping drugs and execute him with an overdose of a sedative. The latter method is not used any other state. Prison officials had planned to press forward with the execution Tuesday night using the second option. The judge approved that decision, but said the sedative must be administered in the execution chamber by a person who is licensed by the state to inject medications intravenously. That group would include doctors, nurses and other medical technicians.
The judge has done a very nice job of making sure that executions in the state of Califiornia will be very difficult to carry out in the future, unless the state can find a medical professional willing to risk his license for an ethics violation to execute the dirtbag in question.
That's a concept worth exploring.
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