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More News From California's Lethal Injection Public Hearing

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Last week's hearing for public comment on the state's proposed lethal injection protocol concuded Tuesday afternoon, but is still making news.  "Morales suffered physical, psychological attack on day of execution, attorneys say," is the title of Scott Smith's report in today's Stockton Record.The state tortured Michael Angelo Morales in a mock execution three years ago when officials delayed his death sentence but waited hours to tell him, attorneys for the Stockton man argue in a letter critical of California's newly proposed lethal injection procedure.Holding Morales in a death watch cell awaiting execution caused a level of psychological torment banned by federal and international law, the attorneys say, adding that every jingling key or turned lock struck him with terror...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 06, 2009 (boomark / email).