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Lethal Injection Round-Up

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From California, the Stockton Record reports, "Morales case gets another hearing."Attorneys for the state brought their case against condemned Stockton man Michael Angelo Morales to an appeals court Thursday in San Francisco for arguments on changes made to California's method of execution two years ago. At issue were modifications state officials made in February 2006 to the lethal injection procedure in a last-ditch effort to convince a federal judge that Morales would not suffer unconstitutional levels of pain during his execution. The challenges indefinitely delayed the death sentence, and California has carried out no further executions pending the outcome of Morales' case. Morales was sentenced to death for the 1981 rape and murder of 17-year-old Terri Lynn Winchell of Stockton...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 19, 2008 (boomark / email).