Regulating executions in California
This Los Angeles Times article, entitled “The Chaos Behind California Executions,” provides highlights from the four days of hearings last week in federal district court concerning California’s lethal injections protocol. And now, thanks to Boalt Law School’s great death penalty clinic website, you can access the elaborate follow-up questions that Judge Fogel has asked the parties in this Request for Briefing.
One almost needs a medical degree to fully appreciate the many questions Judge Fogel is asking about California’s execution protocol. As a result, I cannot help but again wonder, as I have before in this post and this article, why the examination and regulation of California’s execution processes is unfolding in a federal district court rather than in the state legislature.
Some recent related posts:
- A lethal hearing (in the wrong place?)
- My lethal injection piece on SSRN
- Missouri still struggling with its execution protocol
- A bit of lethal injection history
- How could (and should) Congress clean up the lethal injection mess?
- Old school execution
- Lethal injection litigation creates de facto moratorium in Ohio and…