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California legislator urging state to adopt one-drug execution protocol being used by Ohio

By Douglas A. Berman

I was intrigued and pleased to see this news item in the Stockton Record from California, which is headlined "Lawmaker pushes for state to adopt execution method." Here are the basic detail: A Southern California lawmaker is pushing California to follow Ohio's lead and adopt a single-drug method for carrying out executions. Sen. Tom Harman, a Huntington Beach Republican, said Friday that lengthy delays to the execution of Stockton's Michael Angelo Morales prompted him to sponsor the bill. Harman is running for California attorney general. "This is one of the ways we could speed this up and let justice be done," he said. "Let's just get on with it."... Harman said Ohio has adopted the single-drug method - relying solely on a lethal dose of the anesthetic sodium thiopental...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 03, 2010 (boomark / email).