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Government

May 1, 2012

State appeals ruling over lethal injection 'cocktail'

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has appealed a ruling that forces the agency to reconsider its method of executing death row inmates.


By Emily Green


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has appealed a ruling that forces the agency to reconsider its method of executing death row inmates.


In a brief filed Thursday before the 1st District Court of Appeal, the agency said a lower court judge made "fundamental errors" when she ruled that CDCR failed to use the correct procedure for choosing to use a three-drug injection...

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