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| California appeals court upholds moratorium on executions |
| By .reuters.com - Ronnie Cohen |
| Published: 05/31/2013 |
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California has 736 inmates on death row but has not executed anyone in seven years. A federal judge imposed a moratorium on executions there in 2006, ruling that the most populous U.S. state's use of a lethal three-drug cocktail amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. Since then, corrections officials have tried to fix deficiencies in the injection procedure, but a state trial court last year imposed its own separate moratorium on executions after deeming the process "a substantial failure." Read More. |
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