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Federal ruling seems to push California toward one-drug execution protocol

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this new article in the San Jose Mercury News, which is headlined "Judge may allow execution to go forward," California is (perhaps?) getting closer to resume executions after a five year hiatus.  Here are the particulars from a new ruling from the federal judge who put the system on hold way back in 2006: A federal judge today refused to block the scheduled execution next week of a condemned Riverside County killer, but put a wrinkle in his ruling that may mean the inmate can only be put to death with a fatal dose of one anesthetic drug and not the three-drug procedure recently adopted by California prison officials. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel gave Albert Greenwood Brown, scheduled to be executed next Wednesday, until Saturday evening to request an execution with a single drug, a departure from California's preferred and planned method of administering lethal injection...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 24, 2010 (boomark / email).