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The latest judicial hold-up of executions in California

By Douglas A. Berman

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The state with the largest death row in the US appears to be trying, by may not be likely, to be able to resume executions soon. At least that's what I take away from this report in the San Jose Mercury News, which is headlined "Judge again puts state efforts to resume executions on hold." Here are the details: California officials are trying to press forward with resuming executions after a hiatus of more than four years, but the state's lethal injection procedures continue to remain stuck in legal limbo. A Marin County judge on Tuesday put up the latest roadblock to the state's effort to execute its condemned killers, issuing a brief ruling that for now bars prison officials from moving forward immediately with executions. The order came the same day that state lawyers argued in federal court that nothing should stand in the way of setting execution dates soon for six death row inmates, including David Allen Raley, condemned to die in Santa Clara County for the 1985 murder of a Peninsula high school student and the attempted murder of her friend...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).