Posted on 12/17/2011 8:57:24 AM PST by KingofZion
A judge tossed out California's newly adopted lethal injection procedure on Friday, throwing the state's already stalled capital punishment system into further doubt.
Marin County Superior Court Judge Faye D'Opal, finalizing a tentative ruling she issued a day earlier, said prison officials failed to properly explain why they rejected a one-drug process using only a barbiturate when one of their experts recommended it as being superior to the three-drug mixture that was adopted to execute inmates.
*** Prison officials will now either have to appeal or again revise their lethal injection procedures and submit them to public comment, a process that took more than a year last time.
D'Opal's ruling is the second court decision barring executions in California. A federal judge imposed a de facto moratorium on executions in 2006 after finding the lethal injection process was flawed in the state.
One of the state's responses to that finding was to adopt the new execution procedure, which D'Opal's ruling struck down.
In her decision, D'Opal also said the Corrections Department failed to disclose the costs of executions, all of which are conducted at San Quentin Prison in Marin County.
The judge noted that former San Quentin Prison Warden Jeanne Woodford said each execution costs the state between $70,000 and $200,000 in overtime for staff, crowd control, training, security and other expenses associated with carrying out lethal injections.
The judge, additionally, said prison officials failed to properly notify the 720 inmates on California's death row of the new procedures.
Sims filed the lawsuit challenging the new regulation last year. He was convicted of killing a 21-year-old pizza deliveryman in 1985 and had killed two other Domino's Pizza employees four days earlier in South Carolina. He's also was sentenced to die in that state.
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Then let's terminate this judge's employment at the next election.
And finally it is time to pull the plug on this perp.
Hanging works. Heck, you save tons of money as you can re-use the rope.
Nah, heroin. People do that voluntarily, and if they fail to die, try again. No one could ever argue that it was either cruel or unusual.
um.... why can’t we just use the exact same method that liberals approve of for killing stray animals at the animal shelter?
If it’s humane enough to kill fluffy, I think it’s humane enough to kill a serial killer.
In the long run these guys will be let out of the system because California can’t afford to keep them there or better yet it’s all about social justice set them free because they had a bad childhood and are of a certain color or ethnic background not because they murdered an inoccent family. Newt is right on this, these crazy a## judges are dictating from the bench on the side of the criminal and not the Americans who were victimized by these animals. WHO PAYS THIER SALARIES? WHO IS THIER BOSS? IF THEY ARE NOT DOING THIER JOB THEY NEED TO BE REMOVED!Newt got the most applause in the last debate over this very problem.
This ruling comes as no surprise.
Hanging is quick, as supposedly provides men with sexual gratifaction as their last sensation. Hardly cruel and unusual. So why not bring it back? Put it outside and mandate that local news broadcasts include it as a requirement for their continued FCC license. The Hebrews has it right in Deuteronomy: Show the punishment publicly, “so that all of Israel shall see and be afraid”. It is more important than ever to have public hangings because of how lawless and corrupt our society has become.
So we are seeing an end to capital punishment by liberal judges. They are taking the position that there is no humane way to execute someone. Thus, if there is no legal humane way to execute someone, capital punishment will cease to exist because of liberal judges.
So we are seeing an end to capital punishment by liberal judges. They are taking the position that there is no humane way to execute someone. Thus, if there is no legal humane way to execute someone, capital punishment will cease to exist because of liberal judges.
better yet........ plastic bag and ductape....
Nahhh, not sharia compliant, what would our new masters think?
We need our own Chop-Chop plaza, just like our beloved ‘dear friends, the Saudis’...
From her roots in rural Arkansas to the past 25 years in Marin, whether as attorney, feminist, community activist, mother, educator or former Peace Corps leader, Faye has excelled.
Now, get a load of this
Faye’s choices have also included choosing a personal life that evolved dramatically over the years. She and her husband divorced, and Faye has lived the past eighteen years with her woman partner, Wanden. A founding member of the Triangle Alliance of Marin, Faye has worked to help gain equal rights for lesbians and gays.
Not that there's anything "wrong" wi'dat.
What has ruined California is the influx of all the socially concerned Hillbillys.
Why not just use explosives? That would be instantaneous, almost foolproof and irreversible. Cleanup would be with a hose.
“What has ruined California is the influx of all the socially concerned Hillbillys.”
Exactly! California has suffered for years from the westward “migration” of nutcases from points East. When I think of what the California of my youth in the ‘50 was, I am sure that the transition has been by “foreigners” like this Arkansas-born lesbo. Come on Newt! I would welcome a house cleaning process in the judiciary country wide. People like Faye are the termites that are eating away at the social fabric of our nation!
Strap her down and go ahead anyway.
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