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| Fate Of CA Executions Unknown |
| By informant.kalwnews.org |
| Published: 01/05/2011 |
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California hasn’t carried out any death sentences since Clarence Ray Allen was executed by lethal injection at San Quentin in 2006. That year, Federal District Judge Jeremy Fogel–who up until then had been largely known as a brilliant patent law mind–put a halt to executions in the state, saying California’s procedure violated the 8th Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. At issue was the state’s particular lethal injection procedure, which the court decided was prone to error, and the cramped conditions of the gas chamber where members of the execution team barely had room to move. Now that California has rewritten its procedure, built a new facility, and secured a large stock of execution drugs, will executions resume this year? Read More. |
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