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| Calif. may be forced to redesign executions |
| By Los Angeles Times |
| Published: 10/31/2007 |
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CALIFORNIA - California may have to go back to the drawing board to redesign how to execute condemned inmates by lethal injection, under a tentative ruling Tuesday by a Marin County Superior Court judge. Judge Lynn O'Malley Taylor's decision to toss the state's design, if it becomes final, will cast more uncertainty on California's death penalty, already on a de facto moratorium for the last 20 months because of a constitutional challenge to lethal injection. Critics across the country have objected that lethal injection amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, contending that the three-drug cocktail that is used includes a paralyzing chemical that masks extreme pain. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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