The Latest: Prosecutor says plan would bring executions soon

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Prosecutor says plan would bring executions soon

Don Thompson, Associated Press
Updated 12:10 pm, Friday, January 22, 2016

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — 10 a.m.

A Los Angeles County prosecutor says California could begin executions immediately if it adopts regulations involving use of a single lethal drug.

Michele Hanisee, vice president of the county's Association of Deputy District Attorneys, says 18 inmates have exhausted their death penalty appeals, and the state has the means to resume executions for the first time in a decade.

Hanisee spoke Friday at a public hearing on the state corrections department's plan to use a single lethal injection to meet legal requirements amid a national shortage of execution drugs. Authorities could choose from four drugs.

Opponents say the state is hiding how the drugs would be obtained and the effects of two drugs that have never before been used in executions.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/The-Latest-California-eyes-1-drug-executions-6776448.php

[KamaAina]

1. Just get rid of the damn DP, already

Ballot measure coming in the fall.

[Hulk]

2. Am surprised California still uses the death penalty

That's something I would expect in only the red states.

[DFW]

3. Jeez Louise, what's their goddam rush? n/t

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. the criminal lawyers I know scoff at that

None of the drugs are readily available and the two that have never been used in an execution will be litigated and one of the drugs would have to be administered orally.

[Live and Learn]

5. Ugh! nt

[blackspade]

6. Sick. These assholes are desperate for a kill on their watch.

[maveric]

7. What about a big shot of Heroin?

Like my brother and many others. One fat shot would do it.

[Z_California]

8. The people demand more killing as soon as possible!

As a resident of the Golden State I'm shocked we haven't done something about this yet with a progressive Governor and super majorities in the state houses. I'd be surprised if state sanctioned murder is still approved by a majority here but I could be wrong.

[Nye Bevan]

9. Why the fuck doesn't Jerry Brown (who I thought was a progressive) commute all the death sentences

to life without parole? And end this barbaric atrocity?

[Kelvin Mace]

10. Because he is very friendly with

the Prison Industrial Complex.

[happyslug]

11. No, the Californian State Constitution restricts Pardons.

The Governor of Califoria can issue a partdon for any crime EXCEPT when someone has been convicted of two or more felonies. In cases were the pardon applicate has two felonies, the governor must get approval of the State Supreme Court with at least four justices agreeing to the pardon.

That is in the Californian State Constitution thus must be followed until the voters vote to strike it down. No one is proposing such a repeal.

[Kelvin Mace]

13. Well, given how hard he has fought prison reform

he seems okay with abusing prisoners.

[Nye Bevan]

14. It's "two or more felonies in separate proceedings".

Presumably there are at least some death sentences that he could commute without State Supreme Court approval.

[Politicub]

12. The bloodlust is sickening