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California Opens Comment Period on Lethal Injection Regs

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"State opens comment period on lethal injection procedures," is Carol Williams report from the Saturday edition of the Los Angeles Times.State officials launched a two-month forum Friday for public comment on revised lethal injection procedures in a step toward resuming executions as early as next year.But the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation warned in posting the new protocols that it will weigh comments only on the execution process, not on the legality or morality of the death penalty. Executions in California have been on hold for more than three years while authorities reviewed and revised the three-drug execution sequence that first anesthetizes the prisoner, then administers a paralyzing agent and finally induces cardiac arrest with potassium chloride...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 04, 2009 (boomark / email).