Michael Schiavo's attorney George Felos said Terri had been given two 5-milligram doses of morphine, one on March 19 and again on Saturday.

After the second dose Felos told reporters:

"In all the years I've seen Mrs. Schiavo, I have never seen such a look of peace and beauty upon her."

The second morphine injection was administered in response to Terri's "slight moans, grimacing and tensing of the arms," Felos told reporters on Monday.

Terri's father, Robert Schindler, however, expressed concern over the use of the powerful sedative.

"I have a grave concern that they'll expedite the process to kill her with an overdose of morphine," he complained at a Monday press conference. Doctors say that morphine can depress respiration, which could prompt Terri's lungs to shut down early.

A spokesman for Woodside hospice, however, said that wouldn't happen, pledging that staffers "would do nothing to hasten or postpone natural death."

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