Conrad Murray Suffering "Slow Death" in Jail, Lawyer Says

King of Pop 'killer' feels too confined

Dr. Conrad Murray is suffering from possibly life-threatening and permanent injuries in jail. Murray, convicted in Michael Jackson's death, has spent almost a year in a small cell, isolated from the general population, with "extremely limited access to exercise," his lawyer Michael Flanagan said Wednesday. "Death or injury at the hands of another prisoner, however, is no worse than a slow death caused by a loss of circulation and atrophy resulting from inhumane confinement of a large man in a tiny space," Flanagan added. Murray is 6 feet 5 inches tall, but confined in a 5-feet-by-7-feet cell. Murray was taken to a hospital Sunday night for treatment of what his lawyer described as "marked venous stasis of his lower extremities" and "right shoulder pain and severe loss of motion." (CNN)

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