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| CA defends execution procedure |
| By The Los Angeles Times |
| Published: 11/10/2006 |
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LOS ANGELES, CA - The California attorney general's office issued a ringing defense of the state's lethal injection procedure Thursday, maintaining in a court brief that "there is no evidence that any prior execution resulted in the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain." The state's brief was filed with U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel, who conducted a four-day hearing in September examining the contentions of death row inmate Michael Morales that California's lethal injection protocol violates the constitutional bar against cruel and unusual punishment. Fogel is expected to rule this year on the constitutionality of the state's procedure. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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