LETHAL INJECTION: Latest Court Ruling Continues Suspension of Executions in California
Posted: June 06, 2013
On May 30, California’s First District Court of Appeals upheld a
Superior Court ruling that found the state’s lethal injection protocol
invalid because the California Department of Corrections &
Rehabilitation failed to comply with the requirements of the
Administrative Procedures Act. A spokesman for the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation said that no decision has been made on
whether the ruling will be appealed to the California Supreme Court or
if the department will propose a new lethal injection method. California
has not had an execution since 2006, partly because questions related
to the method of execution and the overall fairness of the system. It
has the largest death row in the country, with more than 700 inmates
facing execution. The costs of the death penalty are also likely to play
a prominent role in its future in the state. Natasha Minsker, who led
efforts to repeal California’s death penalty in 2012, said, “Any
effort to resume executions will cost hundreds of thousands of public
dollars and take years, with an extremely limited chance of success.”
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