Government
May 1, 2013
Death penalty bill would permit execution by hypoxia
A death penalty bill in the state Senate is facing criticisms for a controversial provision that activists say would make California the "only jurisdiction in the world to carry out" executions by "suffocation."
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A death penalty bill in the state Senate is facing criticism over a controversial provision that activists say would make California the "only jurisdiction in the world" to carry out executions by "suffocation."
SB 779, proposed by state Sen. Joel Anderson, R-San Diego, and sponsored by the California District Attorneys Association, would modify the punishment of death by gas - an...
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