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California's Long Process to Resuming Executions

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That's the title of an AP report by Paul Elias, via today's San Francisco Chronicle.  LINKA Contra Costa County judge last week sentenced Darryl Kemp to death for the random rape and murder of a young jogger. But chances are that Kemp will not be executed anytime soon, if at all. He is 73. It takes an average of 20 years to execute an inmate in California. And capital punishment has been suspended since February 2006 when Michael Morales came within two hours of execution for the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl. On Tuesday, the return to capital punishment takes a step forward when prison officials convene a daylong public hearing on proposed rules for lethally injecting condemned inmates with three drugs. Even if the proposal passes legal muster, reinstating the death penalty is expected to take up to a year...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 30, 2009 (boomark / email).