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| Doc left prison to avoid participating in execution |
| By The Record |
| Published: 09/29/2006 |
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SAN JOSE, CA - The third day of a federal court hearing over challenges to California's lethal injection protocol brought the testimony of a doctor who abruptly left San Quentin State Prison on Feb. 21, derailing the execution of Stockton's Michael Angelo Morales. Dr. Robert Singler, an anesthesiologist at Napa's Queen of the Valley Hospital, said he was one of two doctors asked to monitor Morales' scheduled execution, ensuring the inmate would remain unconscious and feel no pain. Morales' execution broke down - resulting in an indefinite delay and this week's hearing - when Singler said state officials belatedly told him and the other doctor they might have to take an active role by further sedating Morales if the death row inmate stirred back to consciousness. That was "a very large step beyond observation," Singler said, adding that the Hippocratic oath he abides by as a physician prohibits him from doing harm. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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