{"id":4351,"date":"2006-02-23T09:46:59","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T09:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/do-no-harm.html"},"modified":"2006-02-23T09:46:59","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T09:46:59","slug":"do-no-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/do-no-harm.html","title":{"rendered":"Do no harm"},"content":{"rendered":"

California execution process under, er, fire:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Morales furor began a week ago when U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel declared that California’s three-stage drug cocktail of a sedative, paralytic drug and heart-stopping chemical \u2014 the same protocol used in 37 of the 38 states with lethal injection \u2014 could mask, rather than eliminate, an inmate’s pain during execution.<\/p>\n

Fogel said the state would have to modify its execution procedure or he would hold a full hearing on the process in May.<\/p>\n

To address his concern, prison officials elected to go forward just after midnight Monday with two doctors on hand to ensure that the sedative would be sufficient to deaden the pain of the heart-stopping drug. Just before the execution, however, the two anesthesiologists balked, saying the procedures forced them into the role of executioner, in violation of their medical ethics.<\/p>\n

Fogel then said officials could go forward later in the day with a lethal dose of the sedative alone \u2014 administered by a licensed medical professional stationed within the execution chamber rather than by the usual "unseen hand" delivering the fatal drugs from another room.<\/p>\n

But just two hours before the new, 7:30 p.m. time for the execution, a deputy attorney general told court officials that it had been called off.<\/p>\n

San Quentin spokesman Crittendon said the state "was not able to find any medical professionals willing to inject medication intravenously, ending the life of a human being."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wesley Smith can’t help but point out some ironies.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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