State judge set to toss out California's new execution method

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 10/30/07 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

A state court judge is set to toss out California's new process for executing condemned inmates.

State prison officials revised the lethal injection process in May. A federal judge temporarily halted executions in the state after finding that prison officials were inadequately trained and equipped to administer the three-drug cocktail during executions.

Marin County Superior Court Judge Lynn O'Malley Taylor says prison officials bungled when they failed to treat the revised execution method as a new state regulation. That would have required public comment and the approval of the Office of Administrative Law.

Taylor's ruling is tentative. Government lawyers will get a chance Wednesday to change the judge's mind during a court hearing.

[NormsRevenge]

Incredible.

[NormsRevenge]

but not surprising

[fremont_steve]

Of course it isn't surprising - she is in Marin County - just another Liberal judge defying the will of the people with her own agenda.

[vetsvette]

Let’s hope that if one of these thugs gets out of jail eventually, the judge will be his first victim.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I’m for dropping a garbage can filled with rocks onto them from a height of 50 feet. That should be quick and painless enough.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Damn! Just bring back the firing squad, using M-16's on full auto. That oughta take care of the problem> At least that way, they won't have to worry about mixing of cocktails, until after the execution...

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Damn! Just bring back the firing squad, using M-16's on full auto. That oughta take care of the problem. At least that way, they won't have to worry about mixing of cocktails, until after the execution...

[ronnie raygun]

I heard California’s new death penalty is tossing flowers at the convicted who is tied to a chair with velcro hand restraints until dead.

[JerseyHighlander]

Incredulous, but a reasonable solution to a failure in procedure.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

The gas chamber was my personal favorite. Let them suffer. Make them draw their last breath!

[John123]

prison officials were inadequately trained and equipped to administer the three-drug cocktail during executions.

How hard can that be? There are only three parts!

And who exactly is qualified? 80 year old former Nazi concentration camp executioners?

[Rembrandt]

Place the perp in a training capsule, a low pressure chamber, then withdraw the ambient air. Totally painless loss of consciousness and life. This is what happened to Payne Stewart - a crack in the cockpit; he never knew what happened, no suffering, no nothing. A perfect death.

[NurdlyPeon]

Jesus, why don’t they just shoot them in the back of the head? Quick, simple, cheap, painless and effective.

[Kickass Conservative]

As long as they charge the perps family for the bullet.
Works in China I hear.