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| Victims group sues over slow executions |
| By mantecabulletin.com |
| Published: 11/07/2014 |
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SACRAMENTO (AP) — A victims’ rights organization sued California state officials on Thursday as it seeks to speed up executions that have been on hold since 2006. Sacramento-based Criminal Justice Legal Foundation filed a petition in Sacramento County Superior Court asking a judge to order state corrections officials to adopt procedures for a single-drug, barbiturate-only method of execution. State policy currently calls for using a series of three drugs to put condemned inmates to death. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is drafting new lethal injection regulations after Gov. Jerry Brown said in April 2012 that the state would switch to a single-drug lethal injection. Read More. |
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