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California's Revised Lethal Injection Regulations Approved, Challenged

By Steve Hall

"Calif regulators OK new lethal injection methods," is the AP report from Monday afternoon, via the San Francisco Chronicle. Regulators have approved revised lethal injection procedures ordered by a federal judge, who halted capital punishment in the state until prison officials improved the execution process. The new regulations were almost immediately challenged by a lawsuit that could delay executions even longer. The last California execution occurred in 2006. The new regulations were approved by the Office of Administrative Law on Friday and included detailed instructions on how prison officials should administer the lethal three-drug cocktail to condemned inmates. Carol Williams reports, "State's new execution plan is challenged in court," in the Tuesday edition of the Los Angeles Times...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 06, 2010 (boomark / email).