Officials called off the execution of Convicted killer Michael Morales, for the second time, an hour before the scheduled event Tuesday night, saying they could not comply with a judge’s recent order to have a medical provider administer the fatal dose of barbiturate.

“We were not able to find a licensed professional that was willing to inject medication intravenously, ending the life of a human being,” San Quentin spokesman Vernell Crittendon said Tuesday evening.

The defense had filed a motion that the procedure ran afoul of the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Two alternatives were offered by U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel: either bring in doctors to ensure Morales was properly anesthetized, or skip the usual paralyzing and heart-stopping drugs and execute him with an overdose of a sedative.

Morales was originally scheduled for execution Monday night, but the two anesthesiologists backed out because of the potential ethical dilemma.

The state attempted to administer a lethal dose of sedative-only on Tuesday, which would have had to been administered by a licensed professional. Unfortunately, again, due to the ethical dilemma posed by the situation, no such medical professional could be found prior to the expiration of Morales’ death warrant.

“We took a solemn Hypocritical Oath to do no harm, except to the unborn or the infirm. Morales was sent to death row for torturing, raping and murdering a 17-year-old girl. I can’t reconcile the ethics of taking this man’s life with that solemn oath,” said Dr. Henry Guttenlos.

Guttenlos continued, “If Morales was in, for example, a persistent vegetative state, then it would be incumbent upon us to help him die with dignity.” However Morales is a convicted murderer, and thus, falls under the protections of the Hypocritical Oath.

Surprisingly, some are upset over this turn of events. Barbara Christian, The mother of Morales’ victim was angry and disappointed by the indefinite postponement. “We just want to get this out of our heads and out of our lives,” Christian said. She also made the outrageous claim that “The victims are going through more pain than the murderer.”

Critics have pointed out that the victims didn’t have to endure the personal torment of living on death row for all that time. “She died much more decisively,” said Ben Weston, one of Morales’ attorneys.

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