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Will California ever get back in the execution business?

By Douglas A. Berman

Howard Mintz has this interesting piece in the San Jose Mercury News, headlined "Appeals Court to Consider State's Death Penalty Gridlock."  Here are excerpts: Five months after the U.S. Supreme Court offered a legal road map to states dealing with challenges to lethal injection, California is no closer to resuming executions on the nation's largest death row. Today, however, the legal battle over lethal injection in this state will finally inch forward when an appeals court in San Francisco considers one of the two cases paralyzing California's death penalty machinery.  While the hearing will not catapult the standoff over lethal injection in the state to a conclusion, it is a first step toward kick-starting a legal showdown that will decide whether the state's execution method can pass muster in the courts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 18, 2008 (boomark / email).