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NY Times Editorial: Judge Fogel and the Death Penalty

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

February 10, 2011 Judge Fogel and the Death Penalty On Tuesday, Judge Jeremy Fogel of the Federal District Court in northern California toured a new facility at San Quentin State Prison for executing inmates. Five years ago, in Morales v. Tilton, he ordered the state to halt all executions after he found that the way it administered its lethal injection created too much risk that an inmate would suffer extreme pain. The inspection was part of his review of a proposed new method for injecting those drugs to assess whether he should allow California to resume executions. Judge Fogel stressed in his 2006 opinion that, in focusing on the administration of the lethal three-drug cocktail, ?this case presents a very narrow question.? But that question cannot be answered unless the judge also asks the state why it believes that one of the drugs, sodium thiopental, is reliable...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 11, 2011 (boomark / email).