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California takes steps to get executions going again

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this Sacramento Bee article, headlined "State seeks to start executions again with new rules," California has taken a crucial step to get back to conducting executions.  Here are the basics: California took a major step Friday to clear one of two legal hurdles that have halted executions at San Quentin for more than three years.  The state posted its new lethal injection protocol for executions and opened a public comment period as required under California's Administrative Procedures Act.... San Quentin's death row, the nation's largest, houses 680 prisoners.  The moratorium began on Feb. 21, 2006, when U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jose stayed the execution of Michael Morales after a challenge by his attorneys to the state's lethal injection methodology...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 04, 2009 (boomark / email).