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California Still Has Legal Issues on Lethal Injection Executions

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That's the title of an article in Sunday's Sacramento Bee by Andy Furillo.  It examines some of those involved in the Morales lethal injection challenge that is specific to California.  LINKMorales' lawyer, David Senior, said opposing parties in the federal case still need to cut through a legal thicket before anybody in California gets executed. Among the issues to be resolved: the lethal three-drug cocktail the state had been using and whether it results in unreasonable pain to the condemned, whether there needs to be medical equipment close at hand, and how the members of the execution team are selected, managed and monitored. "It's A to Z," Senior said.More on issues in California include Judge Gerber's SacBee OpEd and posts here (California commission meeting), here (new death row construction), and here (Morales litigation...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).