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Government,
Criminal

Mar. 29, 2018

Marin County judge overturns previous decision barring lethal injections, executions won’t resume soon

A Marin County judge has removed another hurdle to the resumption of executions in California but the decision is but one of several challenges to capital punishment pending in state and federal courts.

A Marin County judge has removed another hurdle to the resumption of executions in California but the decision is but one of several challenges to capital punishment pending in state and federal courts.

Judge Roy O. Chernus on Tuesday reversed his previous ruling halting lethal injections, saying that statutory changes enacted by Proposition 66 rendered it invalid.

The previous ruling, made in 2012...

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