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News Coverage of the California Hearing

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"Opposition to death penalty in California voiced at hearing on lethal injection," is the title of Carol Williams' report in today's Los Angeles Times.Corrections officials heard overwhelming condemnation of proposed new lethal injection procedures Tuesday at the first-ever public hearing on execution methods in the state. Contrary to the solid majority of Californians who in opinion polls expressed support for the death penalty, only two out of more than 100 speakers supported a resumption of death sentences once legal hurdles are cleared.But the opponents' sentiments are unlikely to be persuasive because the hearing was intended to review specific execution procedures, not the pros and cons of capital punishment, which remains a legal option in the state...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).