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Lethal Injection Roundup

By Steve Hall

We have items today from California, Kentucky, and Washington. First, the ACLU of Southern California blog posts, "You Can?t Leapfrog the Law if You Want to Execute People in Its Name." Declaring that ?justice has been delayed too long,? California state and county officials this week rushed into court to request execution dates for the first time in almost five years. To some, it might sound like the government is finally doing what it needs to do to get executions moving forward. But in reality, they are ignoring the law, setting up victims? families for yet another painful disappointment, and causing even more delays.That?s because they know full well that the state has a time-out on executions that was put in place in 2006, over concerns that our execution procedures were so plagued by problems that they were unconstitutional...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).