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New Execution Method Unlikely to Gain Traction in California

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Carol Williams' report in today's Los Angeles Times.  LINKAn 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.And:California and several other states that have the death penalty on hold are reviewing their three-drug procedures to address claims that they might inflict "cruel and unusual punishment" banned by the Constitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 09, 2009 (boomark / email).