Constitutional Law
Dec. 18, 2006
Judge Faults State's Lethal Injection Process
SAN FRANCISCO - Unless California switches to a one-drug sedative for executing death-row prisoners, it will remain vulnerable to yet another constitutional challenge, legal experts say.
By Laura Ernde
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Unless California switches to a one-drug sedative for executing death-row prisoners, it will remain vulnerable to yet another constitutional challenge, legal experts say.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel on Friday said the state's three-drug lethal injection process is so fraught with problems that it violates the Eighth Amendment...
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Unless California switches to a one-drug sedative for executing death-row prisoners, it will remain vulnerable to yet another constitutional challenge, legal experts say.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel on Friday said the state's three-drug lethal injection process is so fraught with problems that it violates the Eighth Amendment...
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