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"New execution method unlikely to gain traction in California"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this notable (and disappointing) article in today's Los Angeles Times.  Here is how it starts: An Ohio murderer put to death with the nation's first single-drug lethal injection died swiftly Tuesday, inaugurating an execution method some analysts consider more humane than the three-drug procedure used in California and 33 other states. But the method used in Ohio is unlikely to gain traction in California, experts say, because of procedural hurdles and persistent concerns about how the drugs -- whatever their number -- are administered to the condemned. This is significant news because California has the nation's largest death row and because its current lethal injection protocol has been in constitutional purgatory for more than three years...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 09, 2009 (boomark / email).