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California Executions May Resume By the End of 2008

Posted April 16, 2008April 16, 2008 Flap2 CommentsPosted in Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Michael Morales

In this photo released of Benjamin Vaughn, lower right, with his great uncle Clarence Ray Allen, lower left, and Allenâ€™s son Roger Allen, upper left, and his wife, Dell Ray Allen, upper right, inside San Quentin Prison in San Quentin, Calif., Monday, Jan. 16, 2006, before the execution of Allen. Allen, 76, was sentenced to death for ordering the slaying of three people at a Fresno, Calif., market while he was behind bars in 1980 for another murder. The last California execution.

California lethal injection executions may resume by the end of the year.

Executions in California may resume by the end of the year — with one inmate being put to death by lethal injection each month — as a result of today’s Supreme Court ruling, a high-level state prosecutor said.

Chief Assistant Atty. Gen. Dane Gillette, who has defended the state’s lethal injection procedures against a federal court challenge, said he believes it is “certainly feasible” to resume executions by the end of the year.

U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose had ordered a temporary halt to executions in California after finding the state’s lethal injection procedures were unconstitutional. A decision by Fogel on whether a new execution protocol by the state meets constitutional requirements is pending.

A hearing in the case has been set for June, but Gillette said it may be moved up as a result of today’s high court ruling. The state plans to ask Fogel to lift his court order and permit executions to resume.

Even if Fogel rules quickly for the state, another legal challenge pending in a California appellate court will prevent the state from executing inmates immediately. Gillette said the state would press for a quick resolution in that case, which was unaffected by the Supreme Court decision.

Resuming executions this year “means a lot of things falling our way, but I think that is entirely possible,” Gillette said.

Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel’s ruling was CRAP and now the Supremes have overturned a bogus attempt to end capital punishment by lethal injection in this country.

The San Quentin “OLD” execution chamber has been remodeled and an updated execution protocol will be adjusted in accordance with today’s U.S. Supreme Court holdings.

Michale Morales has been in prison for over twenty-seven years for the brutal murder by claw-hammer and knife of Terri Lyn Winchell. Morales raped her in the dirt after hitting her in the head 23 times with a claw hammer. He then stabbled her four times to make sure she was dead.

This bastard has been duly convicted of his crimes in a California court of law and the sentence imposed by the court is death.

Morales will be the next to die for his crimes.

Time for justice for Terri Lynn Winchell.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today:

“I will continue to defend the death penalty and the will of the people, and I am confident that California’s lethal injection protocol will be upheld,” Schwarzenegger said.

Governor, it is time for your office to enforce the law of California as voted into law by the people of California in 1978.

Stay tuned……….

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Michael Morales Watch: US Supreme Court Upholds Lethal Injection Executions

Posted April 16, 2008April 16, 2008 FlapPosted in Capital Punishment, Michael Morales

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The United States Supreme Court upheld the use of lethal injection executions this morning.

The Supreme Court upheld Kentucky’s use of lethal injection executions Wednesday.

The justices, by a 7-2 vote, turned back a constitutional challenge to the procedures in place in Kentucky, which uses three drugs to sedate, paralyze and kill inmates.

“We … agree that petitioners have not carried their burden of showing that the risk of pain from maladministration of a concededly humane lethal injection protocol, and the failure to adopt untried and untested alternatives, constitute cruel and unusual punishment,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in an opinion that garnered only three votes. Four other justices, however, agreed with the outcome.

So, let’s get on with the execution of Michael Morales. Certainly, the State of California has finished upgrading the death chamber at San Quentin?

Remember the Morales Case?

Remember his victim, Terri Lynn Winchell?

Remember the MURDER? LOVE TRIANGLE GONE VICIOUS

Remember the NO JUSTICE INDEFINITE POSTPONEMENT OF EXECUTION?

Governor Schwarzenegger, let’s get on with it……..

Stay tunedâ€¦â€¦.

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Michael Angelo Morales Watch: New San Quentin Death Chamber Under Construction

Michael Angelo Morales Watch: California Governor Schwarzenegger Proposes Revised 5-Point Lethal Injection Protocol

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Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Execution Postponed INDEFINITELY

Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Execution Tonight?

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US Supreme Court to Decide Lethal Injection Rules

Posted January 7, 2008 Flap2 CommentsPosted in Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Supreme Court

The old San Quentin, California Death Chamber last used with the Stanley Tookie Williams execution

The United States Supreme court will take up whether execution by lethal injection is unconstitutional – cruel and unusual punishment.

Flap wishes these bleeding heart federal judges, like Jeremy Fogel in California had more concern for the victims of these perp’s heinous crimes.

So, make the rules, inject them with one drug or hang the creeps.

If anyone thinks this will deter the anti-death penalty cabal…….

Michael Angelo Morales Watch: California Governor Schwarzenegger Proposes Revised 5-Point Lethal Injection Protocol

Posted December 19, 2006 Flap1 CommentPosted in Arnold Schwarzenegger, Capital Punishment, Michael Morales

Sacramento Bee: State seeks new plan for lethal injections

Responding to judge, governor wants improved training for executions.

Addressing concerns of a federal judge, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger laid out a plan Monday to bring California’s lethal injection process in line with constitutional standards guarding against cruel and unusual punishment.

Schwarzenegger’s proposed five-point lethal injection protocol came in response to Friday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose that the state hadn’t been properly anesthetizing condemned inmates who were being put to death.

The Republican governor’s new review plan calls for better screening and training of “execution team” members and requiring them to better familiarize themselves with the death drugs they administer.

U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel’s ruling is here.

Remember Michael Morales?

Remember his victim, Terri Lynn Winchell?

Remember the MURDER? LOVE TRIANGLE GONE VICIOUS

Remember the NO JUSTICE INDEFINITE POSTPONEMENT OF EXECUTION?

“I respect Judge Fogel’s decision,” Schwarzenegger said in Los Angeles on Monday. “(He) … has made it very clear we should make the system, we should make the procedure constitutional. So I instructed my office and my team to do that, to work hard on it. We had meetings on that issue and we are going to comply with the judge.”

In a prepared statement, the governor said his administration will “take immediate action to resolve court concerns which have cast legal doubt on California’s procedure for carrying out the death penalty.”

Good Call Governator.

Now, let’s get some justice for Terri Lynn Winchell.

However, stay tuned for the appeals of the revised protocol as soon as it is completed.

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Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Execution Postponed INDEFINITELY

Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Execution Tonight?

Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Execution Delayed by Doctor Walk Out

Michael Angelo Morales Watch: United States Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Morales Execution

Michael Angelo Morales Watch: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Denies Clemency Petition

Michael Angelo Moreno Watch: State Agrees to Place Anesthesia Expert in Death Chamber

Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Lawyers Withdraw Allegedly Faked Juror Statements Supporting Their Clemency Bid

Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Federal Judge May Delay Execution

Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Ventura County Judge Asks California Governor Schwarzenegger for Clemency

Michael Angelo Morales Watch: Kenneth Starr to Assist Death Row Clemency Bid

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Michael Morales Watch: Judge Jeremy Fogel Rules – California Method of Lethal Injection Violates a Constitutional Ban on Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Posted December 15, 2006December 19, 2006 Flap1 CommentPosted in Capital Punishment, Michael Morales

AP: Federal judge declares Calif. executions unconstitutional

A federal judge who imposed a moratorium on state executions ruled Friday that the current method of lethal injection violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

California’s “implementation of lethal injection is broken, but it can be fixed,” U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel said.

Fogel said the case presented the narrow question of whether a three-drug cocktail administered by San Quentin State Prison officials is so painful that it “offends” the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Fogel said he was compelled “to answer that question in the affirmative.”

The decision is the latest in a nationwide challenge to lethal injection as cruel and unusual punishment and came just after Florida Gov. Jeb Bush suspended all executions in that state after a botched execution this week.

Lethal injection is the preferred execution method in 37 states.

Last month, a federal judge declared Missouri’s injection method, which is similar to California’s, unconstitutional.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld executions â€” by hanging, firing squad, electric chair and gas chamber â€” despite the pain they might cause, but has left unsettled the issue of whether the pain is unconstitutionally excessive.

Remember Michael Morales?

Remember his victim, Terri Lynn Winchell?

Remember the MURDER? LOVE TRIANGLE GONE VICIOUS

Remember the NO JUSTICE INDEFINITE POSTPONEMENT OF EXECUTION?

California has been under a capital punishment moratorium since February, when Fogel called off the execution of rapist and murderer Michael Morales amid concerns inmates might suffer excruciating deaths.

Fogel found substantial evidence that the last six men executed at San Quentin might have been conscious because they were still breathing when lethal drugs were administered.

He ordered anesthesiologists to be on hand, or demanded that a licensed medical professional inject a large, fatal dose of a sedative instead of the additional paralyzing agent and heart-stopping drugs used. No medical professional, however, was willing to participate.

Attorneys for Morales alleged in a lawsuit that Morales might appear unconscious after being injected with a sedative, but internally he would succumb to excruciating pain, “burning veins and heart failure,” once the paralyzing and the death drug were administered.

Judge Jeremy Fogel’s ruling is here.

Flap supposes that a lethal injection in San Quentin is too good for Morales:

Maybe we can revert to this: