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California’s death chamber will remain closed for now

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The Governator decided not to appeal the decsion to shutter — at least for now — California’s death chamber. California officials have abandoned a legal fight over their bid to secretly overhaul the state’s execution method, a move that sends the issue back to square one and leaves San Quentin’s newly-constructed execution chamber idled for the foreseeable future. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration decided not to appeal November’s ruling by a state appeals court, which found that prison officials failed to follow proper administrative procedures when they attempted to revise California’s lethal injection method without any public input.. State lawyers had until Dec. 31 to appeal to the state Supreme Court, but have decided instead to follow the administrative rules and put the execution plan through public review, likely including public hearings...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).