democrats played the role of executioner...

democrats played the role of executioner, killing a bill that sought to protect doctors from dealing with the death penalty. Sen. Sam Aanestad, R-Grass Valley, had introduced Senate Bill 1808 to shield doctors from having their licenses suspended or removed if they chose to participate in a state-sanctioned execution.
Calling it premature, Sens. Carole Migden, D-San Francisco, and Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, said the state Legislature should not pass bills related to the death penalty until the courts finish reviewing the state's execution process.
Aanestad's bill was headed for a Senate floor vote after clearing the Business and Professions Committee. But Senate Democratic leaders rerouted it to the Public Safety Committee chaired by Migden. The panel killed it Thursday on a 2-2 vote.
While the California Medical Association wants to block doctors from taking part in executions, the medical group did not oppose Aanestad's bill because it agrees, in principle, that an execution is not a medical procedure. A CMA-backed bill, Assembly Bill 1954, would prohibit physicians from attending executions in an official capacity, monitoring vital signs, determining an inmate's point of death, or prescribing, administering or supervising the injection of lethal medication. It awaits action in the Assembly.