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Death Row is Reborn, But Is It Humane?

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a report from San Francisco's KTVU.  LINKCalifornia's new death chamber was completed one year ago at cost of $400 million, and it has never been used. Although 702 inmates sit on death row, executions are holding even. The last man scheduled to die was Michael Morales for the 1981 rape and murder of 17-year-old Terri Mitchell. Two hours before Morales was to die by lethal injection, a federal judge effectively halted his execution and all those to follow until the state built a new death chamber at San Quentin Prison which includes separate viewing areas for family members and press and devised new death penalty procedures. "I think that we've addressed the court's concerns and have a process that meets all constitutional mandates," said Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Undersecretary Scott Kernan...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 05, 2010 (boomark / email).