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Judge bars new plan for executions
By Los Angeles Times
Published: 11/01/2007

CALIFORNIA - A Marin County judge issued an injunction Wednesday that bars California from using a new plan to execute condemned inmates by lethal injection. Earlier this year, the state revised how it would administer lethal injection after a federal judge stopped executions in California, finding that they risked inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on death row inmates.

Judge Lynn O'Malley Taylor's ruling, issued late Wednesday, held that the state broke the law by redesigning its execution procedures without seeking public comment or submitting them to review by an independent state agency. Read more.

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