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News Coverage - California Rejection of Lethal Injection Regulations

By Steve Hall

The California Office of Administrative Law Decision is available in Adobe .pdf format. The AP filing, "Regulators reject new death penalty procedures," by Paul Elias is via the San Francisco Chronicle.The Office of Administrative Law on Tuesday rejected the proposed regulations drafted by prison officials, who have until Oct. 6 to submit revisions. The court cases challenging California's capital punishment law will remain on hold until the proposed regulations are approved. The office identified several passages that conflicted with state law, were unclear or failed to properly state reasons for the new procedures. A federal judge halted executions in California in 2006 and ordered the administration of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to improve the lethal injection process to eliminate chances inmates would suffer cruel and unusual punishment during executions...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 10, 2010 (boomark / email).