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Criminal

Sep. 29, 2010

Lethal Injection, Civil Rights Lawsuits and the Death Penalty

Executions may be resuming now that a state appellate court, last week, removed one of the few remaining roadblocks, by Harvey Gee, Office of the Federal Public Defender.

By Harvey Gee

Executions in California may be resuming now that a state appellate court removed one of the few remaining roadblocks on Sept. 21. Executions were on hold for the past few years since U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel halted Michael Morales' execution after his attorneys argued that the three-drug lethal injection method was flawed. Across the nation, litigation against execution by lethal injection is being brought by death row inmates, ...

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