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| California To Release Plan To Use 1 Drug In Executions |
| By rapidnewsnetwork.com- Tyler Owen |
| Published: 11/09/2015 |
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California proposed Friday to allow corrections officials to choose one of four types of barbiturates to execute prisoners on death row depending on what’s available, as states deal with a nationwide shortage of execution drugs. He attributed that to Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Gen. Kamala D. Harris, who oppose the death penalty although they have said they would enforce it. Inmates can still choose death by lethal gas instead of injection. A few condemned prisoners were stoic when told about the impending arrival of a new execution protocol. However, California voters narrowly backed the death penalty in 2012 52 percent to 48 percent. As a result, the huge building at San Quentin State Prison set aside for condemned men – the state’s few condemned women are housed at a prison near Chowchilla – is at capacity. Executions in California stalled in 2006 amid legal challenges, but federal and state judges suggested the state could resume the punishment if it began using a single drug. Read More. |
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