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Judge Tours California Execution Chamber

By Steve Hall

This morning's Los Angeles Times reports, "Federal judge tours San Quentin death chamber."  It's written by Carol J. Williams. The federal judge weighing whether California can resume executing condemned prisoners toured San Quentin State Prison's new lethal injection facility Tuesday in what he called a fact-finding mission to help determine whether the state's revised procedures meet constitutional standards. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel halted the execution of murderer Michael A. Morales five years ago, citing concerns the execution team was poorly trained, the converted gas chamber too cramped and ill-lit and the state's method of delivering the three-drug execution cocktail at risk of inflicting cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 09, 2011 (boomark / email).