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Lawyers Seek to Question Former California Governor

By Steve Hall

Today's Silicon Valley Mercury News reports, "Lawyers for death row inmates seek to question Schwarzenegger on execution procedures."  It's by Howard Mintz. Lawyers for death row inmates are trying to question former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other top state officials as part of the ongoing legal challenge to California's lethal injection procedures. In court papers filed Monday, Attorney General Kamala Harris asked a federal judge to block or limit efforts to depose Schwarzenegger and others in his administration involved in crafting new execution procedures last year, saying the evidence is irrelevant to whether the current lethal injection method poses a threat of an inhumane execution. State lawyers argued in documents filed with U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 01, 2011 (boomark / email).