They're delaying the execution of some killer in California.  His name is Michael Morales.  He killed a 17-year-old girl 23 years ago in California.  He beat her with a hammer, then he stabbed her and left her laying half-naked in a vineyard.  Morales has a team of defense lawyers trying to prevent his execution.  They want to make sure that he feels no pain as he is put to death by lethal injection.  Federal courts are going along with this crapola.   How sick is this?  This predator beats a woman with a hammer, stabs her, and leaves her to die.  Now he's complaining because his execution may hurt.  Let's just kill him, one way or the other, and get it done with.  They're going to try again at 7:30 tonight.  I have a hammer they can use.

Therein lies my problem with the death penalty...23 years?? Give the asshole one appeal and then execute him, don't drag it out for a quarter century. By that time they become sympathetic stick figures that Mike Farrell, Ed Asner and Hugo Chavez can glom onto. Ok. I threw Hugo in for effect.