Looks like Morales will be up for a Tookie award some other time, and all of Hollyweird gives a rousing cheer for the scumbag.
Morales may evade pain for a while in this life, but mark my words, there is pain waiting for him in the next one.
Justice will be done. Bet the rent.
I got some rope... what's the problem?
I am sure the victim's family is happy to hear he is getting his due process more than 23 years after he savagely murdered a young woman.
Special Thanks to Judge Fogel and the AMA and CMA.
'Rat bastards!
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
This whole thing sounded like a set up job to me.
Man this is gonna go over like a turd in a punch bowl. Look for O'Reilly and the talkers to let rip over this.
Just shoot the SOB.
The State of CA was majorly stupid on this one. The judge set up all kinds of ridiculous conditions. Now they've probably waived any right to appeal those conditions since they attempted to comply with them.
GREAT message to send to murderers.
And the family's being forced to suffer all the more.
Blame on Ninth cirus Norm that real criminals in this case BTW I think what going happen Justice Roberts and rest of US Supreme would tell Ninth circus SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE know your role LOL!
Update ---
Calif. Execution Postponed Indefinitely
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060222/ap_on_re_us/california_execution
SAN FRANCISCO - The state on Tuesday postponed indefinitely the execution of a condemned killer amid a court battle over the state's method of lethal injection and the role doctors may play in the death chamber.
State officials notified the federal courts they would be unable to comply with a judge's order to have a medical profesional administer a lethal dose of barbiturate to Michael Morales in the execution chamber, a court spokeswoman told The Associated Press.
It was unclear when the execution would be carried out. Prison officials were not immediately available for comment.
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 the anesthesiologists objected 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 "As a result, we have withdrawn from participation in this current process."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. The attorneys said a prisoner could feel excruciating pain from the last two chemicals if he were not fully sedated.
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.
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.
Morales' lawyers planned to appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the state notified the court late Tuesday afternoon that it did not intend to go forward with the execution.
The judge's ruling renewed an ethical debate that has persisted for many years about the proper role of doctors in executions and the suitability of the lethal injection method used in California and 35 other states.
The American Medical Association, the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the California Medical Association all opposed the anesthesiologists' participation as unethical and unprofessional.
The anesthesiologists ultimately withdrew after the judge wrote that they might have to demand that the executioner administer more sedatives through a separate intravenous line to make sure the prisoner is unconscious.
The anesthesiologists would have joined another doctor who is on duty at all California executions to declare the prisoner dead and ensure proper medical procedures are followed. The doctor does not insert any of the intravenous lines and is not in the room during the execution itself; typically the doctor watches the inmate's vital signs on electronic monitors outside the death chamber.
Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor and expert on lethal injection, said Fogel's order seemed "like a desperate measure."
"These are not circumstances by which somebody ought to be executed," she said. "It's never been done before like this."
The U.S. Supreme Court has never directly addressed the constitutionality of lethal injection or whether it causes inmates excessive pain.
Morales was condemned in 1983 for killing 17-year-old Terri Winchell, who was attacked with a hammer, stabbed and left to die half-naked in a vineyard.
Morales had plotted the killing with a gay cousin who was jealous of Winchell's relationship with another man. The cousin was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Shoot the bastard. It's quick, easy, and he won't feel a thing. What's the problem, Kalifornia??
Thanks! :)
124 grs. of copper jacketed lead injected behind an ear at approxamately 1250 fps and I gaurentee he won't feel a thing.
No sarcasm here!!
Outsource the execution to Texas - our executioner never has a problem "putting to sleep" the condemned.
KILL
Gee whoda thunk that AP would have omitted some pertinent details, like, the victim was raped.
It's amazing how this slime, and his slime lawyers, will fight for his life after he brutally hammered a young woman to death? Maybe it's a good thing though? It may give him more time on this earth to reflect on what went wrong in his life and how his actions were wrong for humanity?????
And with a spit in Justice's eye, he steals a march on the Reaper.