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...clear things up, most believe it will fall to the Supreme Court to decide the permissible means of executing death row inmates by lethal injection. "The Morales case is an encouraging sign," says Tom Goldstein, a Washington, D.C., attorney who has just petitioned the Supreme Court to consider his appeal on behalf of Tennessee death-row client Abu Ali Abdur'Rahman. "The courts for so long have just given this issue the back of their hand, while the states have said, 'Everyone else is giving lethal injections this way so we can do it too,' even though they...
During a month of frantic courthouse wrangling about whether California inmate Michael Morales should be executed by lethal injection, his lawyers contended that the state's execution procedures amounted to cruel and unusual punishment because scientific evidence suggests the intravenously administered three-drug mixture doesn't alleviate severe pain as it stops the heart. But it wasn't their argument, or a decision from presiding U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel that temporarily halted Morales' execution. Rather, it was the ethical stance by doctors, who refused to serve as monitors prepared to intervene in case of complications, because of their Hippocratic...
...understanding the dangers and disregarding them." Which is perhaps the neatest summary I've seen of the public debate surrounding the Bush Administration's war in Iraq. Absent further evidence, the Administration seems guilty of negligence-a cavalier insensitivity to the unimaginable calamities that attend the use of lethal force. And while I have little faith that Cheney's awful experience at the Armstrong Ranch will change his views of war and peace, I do hope that it gives him pause and that he gains wisdom from the intimate knowledge that there are experiences other than "pleasure" that can attend...
Until last year, Neil Young's public persona was a lot like his lyrics: alluring but largely opaque. The singer-songwriter didn't traditionally say much to the audience during concerts and rarely gave media interviews. But a potentially lethal brain aneurysm last spring that required delicate surgery, followed by the death of his father, Canadian journalist and writer Scott Young, changed him. Or, perhaps more correctly, opened him up. With mortality grabbing him by the scruff of the neck (and his 60th birthday awaiting him in the fall), Young went into a Nashville studio last March to record Prairie...
...DIED. NORMAN SHUMWAY, 83, the first physician to perform a successful heart transplant in the U.S.; in Palo Alto, California. His first transplant patient, in 1968, died of complications after 14 days. In the years that followed, most transplants ended in lethal infections or organ rejection soon after surgery. But Shumway, working with a Stanford University team, used smaller doses of toxic anti-rejection drugs and found other ways to dramatically improve transplant survival rates...