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Does California Have a Backup Plan for Lethal Injection?

By Steve Hall

Federal District Judge Jeremy Fogel is scheduled to rule tomorrow on the status of California's lethal injection protocol.  KTVU/Bay City News picks up on an aspect that I have not seen reported in other media.  The report is, "State Unveils One-Drug Execution Plan." State lawyers have laid out for a federal judge their plans for an execution scheduled next week at San Quentin that will use one drug instead of the usual three.But the attorneys cautioned in papers filed with U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel on Wednesday that they provided the information "without conceding that the court has the jurisdiction to order a one-drug execution or that such an execution would comply with state law."Death row inmate Albert Greenwood Brown, 56, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison early Sept...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 23, 2010 (boomark / email).