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Could California conduct a bunch of executions in the coming months?

By Douglas A. Berman

The question in this title of this post is prompted by this local article which notes that "there are seven inmates from [various California] counties who have exhausted all regular appeals who could have their execution date set, according to Christine Gasparac, press secretary for the California Attorney General's Office."  Here's more: The list of seven gained significance recently with the announcement that the California Department of Corrections has obtained four doses of a lethal-injection drug that can be used during a state-authorized execution. Those seven murderers include Kevin Cooper, who was sentenced to death in May 1985 for slaughtering a Chino Hills couple, their daughter and a neighborhood youth shortly after he escaped from the California Institution for Men in Chino...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 10, 2010 (boomark / email).