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Latest California efforts to get back into the execution business

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this front-page article in today's San Francisco Chronicle, the state with the nation's largest death row may be getting ever closer to resuming executions after a nearly five-year hiatus prompted by concerns about the state's lethal injection protocol.  The article is headlined "San Quentin gives glimpse of new injection space," and here are excerpts: Execution is going to be a much more visible and sterile experience at San Quentin State Prison from now on. Prison officials offered the first glimpse of their new lethal injection center Tuesday -- one week ahead of a planned execution few think will actually be carried out -- and the differences between this stark-white place and the old apple-green gas chamber are marked...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).