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California's Lethal-Injection Plan Is Proven to Be Inhumane

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That's the title of an OpEd by Ty Alper in the Sunday edition of the Silicon Valley Mercury News.  He's the associate director of UC Berkeley Law School's Death Penalty Clinic.  It appeared in the Sunday edition.  LINKOn Tuesday, California prison officials will hear public comment on their proposed procedures for conducting lethal-injection executions. Although officials claim their goal is to achieve humane executions, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation plans to stick with a three-drug protocol that risks just the opposite. The protocol is so fraught with danger that it would be illegal to use to euthanize a dog or cat in this state.It involves the administration of three drugs: first, an anesthetic; second, a drug that paralyzes the inmate; and third, potassium chloride to stop the heart...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 29, 2009 (boomark / email).