California execution delayed as doctors walk out

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/21/california.execution.ap/index.html
..."the anesthesiologists objected that they might have to advise the executioner if the inmate woke up or appeared to suffer pain."
""Any such intervention would clearly be medically unethical," the doctors, whose identities were not released, said in a statement. "As a result, we have withdrawn from participation in this current process.""

I think this is a very courageous act of conscience by these two physicians. Acts of conscience are very rare these days.

- Vox