Marin County Judge Strikes Down Lethal Injection Procedure
A Marin County Superior Court judge on Friday struck down California's three-drug lethal injection procedure, ruling it was in violation of state law.
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A Marin County Superior Court judge on Friday struck down California's three-drug lethal injection procedure, ruling it was in violation of state law.
A Marin County judge is planning to toss out California's newly adopted lethal injection procedure.
A long-running challenge to California's death penalty procedures that has resulted in executions being put on hold for five years has been assigned to a new federal judge in San Francisco.
A report released Monday tallies the cost of carrying out an execution in California, suggesting that the financial impact to California taxpayers since capital punishment was reinstated in the state is in the neighborhood $4 billion.
Vallejo police arrested six people from Fairfield Friday suspected of involvement in a murder in May, police said.
A former warden of San Quentin State Prison and former California Corrections Department director has become the new chief of an anti-death-penalty group.
California's prison department said Monday it has turned to an overseas manufacturer to replenish its supplies of sodium thiopental, a drug necessary to carry out executions in the state.
Prison officials obtained a drug essential to the lethal injection process the day after California's first execution in nearly five years was canceled, partly due to a shortage of that very drug, a court filing stated Wednesday.
The California Supreme Court issued an order in San Francisco Wednesday that appears to block Thursday's execution of a convicted murderer, regardless of whether a federal court stay is upheld in the U.S. court system.
A federal judge has blocked what would have been California's first execution, which was set for Thursday, after reassessing new injection protocols.
The new scheduled time for California's first execution in nearly five years is just hours before the expiration date of one of the drugs used in the lethal injection process.
A federal appeals court ordered a trial judge late Monday to reconsider his ruling that paved the way for California's first execution in nearly five years.
A convicted murderer who is scheduled to be executed Wednesday began an appeal to a federal appeals court in San Francisco Sunday for a stay of his death penalty.
There could be yet another twist in this week's scheduled execution of a convicted killer and rapist at San Quentin State Prison.
A U.S. District Court Judge refused to block death row inmate Albert Greenwood Brown's execution. The decision paves the way for California's first execution in nearly five years.
Lawyers for death row inmate Albert Greenwood Brown point to election-year politics as the reason their client was suddenly scheduled for a lethal injection this week.
California can proceed with its first execution in more than four years, a federal judge ruled Friday.
The state's recently refurbished death chamber at San Quentin State Prison will be ready for a planned execution next week if a federal judge lifts the five-year moratorium on capital punishment in California, according to officials.
