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| CA execution team gets little training |
| By The Mercury News |
| Published: 11/28/2006 |
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SAN QUENTIN, CA - By their own account, current and former members of San Quentin's execution team have little training or understanding of the rules or mixture of drugs used to put condemned murderers to death, documents released Monday show. The documents, filed by lawyers for death row inmate Michael Morales in a federal court challenge to California's lethal injection procedure, reveal testimony given by execution team members who were questioned privately earlier this year in the legal battle over the state's execution method. Morales has challenged California's lethal injection protocol, arguing that it risks causing inmates undue pain during an execution and amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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