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CALIFORNIA REJECTS PROPOSED NEW DEATH PENALTY RULES

December 28, 2016: Efforts to revive the death penalty in California were dealt another blow late last month when a state agency tasked with reviewing regulatory changes rejected a proposed new lethal injection protocol.
The decision by the Office of Administrative Law came one day after the California Supreme Court blocked implementation of Proposition 66, an initiative passed by voters in November to expedite capital punishment, pending the outcome of a lawsuit.
In a 25-page decision of disapproval released on Dec. 28, the OAL cited inconsistencies and ambiguities in the protocol, insufficient justification for some regulations and a need for further response to public comments.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has four months to remedy the issues and resubmit its proposal.
Executions were halted in 2006 because of legal challenges alleging that California’s lethal injection method violated the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
The corrections department began developing a new protocol last year that replaced its old 3-drug cocktail with a 7.5-gram, single-drug dose of 1 of 4 barbiturates: amobarbital, pentobarbital, secobarbital or thiopental.
Among the questions raised by the OAL was why inmates would be injected with 7.5 grams of a barbiturate when corrections officials acknowledged 5 grams is a sufficiently lethal dose.
It also asked for additional explanations on a $50 limit for inmates' last meals and why inmates would be offered the option of taking a sedative before the execution begins.
The majority of the decision focused on ambiguities in the protocol that the OAL said needed to be clarified. These included the timeline for steps taken in the days and hours leading up to an execution, how to proceed if an inmate does not immediately die, what sedative options are available and who must administer them, what proposed monthly "security and operational inspections" of the execution chamber would entail, and under what conditions a warden should raise inquiry into an inmate's sanity. (Source: Sacramento Bee, 28/12/2016)

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IRAQ: 88 TERRORIST CONVICTS EXECUTED IN 2016
QATAR: DRUGS GANG LEADER SENTENCED TO DEATH
CHINA: ARSONIST SENTENCED TO DEATH
WASHINGTON (USA): GOVERNOR ISSUES REPRIEVE, CALLS FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
IRAN: PUBLIC FLOGGING SENTENCE CARRIED OUT
JORDAN: FIVE MEMBERS OF ISIL CELL SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TERROR
SAUDI ARABIA: GENEROSITY OF A SAUDI SAVES AN INDIAN FROM DEATH SENTENCE
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE REVOKED ONE DAY AHEAD OF EXECUTION
JORDAN: FOUR JORDANIANS GIVEN DEATH PENALTY OVER DRUGS KILLING
SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR INTERIOR MINISTRY BOMB PLOT
THAILAND: PHUKET PRISONERS RELEASED ON ROYAL PARDON
IRAN: TWO AMPUTATION SENTENCES CARRIED OUT
PAKISTAN: FIRST CONVICT HANGED AFTER THREE MONTHS
ZAMBIA: MPOMBO’S SON SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
NIGERIA: EDO STATE EXECUTES THREE DEATH ROW INMATES
INDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING AND MURDERING MINOR
PENNSYLVANIA (USA): FIRST-DEGREE MURDER CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST TWO FORMER PENNSYLVANIA DEATH ROW PRISONERS WITH INNOCENCE CLAIMS
FLORIDA (USA): MORE THAN 200 PRISONERS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY SENTENCED TO DEATH MAY GET NEW SENTENCING HEARING
IRAN: PRISONER EXECUTED IN PUBLIC
USA: HISTORIC DECLINES IN DEATH PENALTY USE CONTINUE
CALIFORNIA (USA): SUPREME COURT HALTS DEATH PENALTY MEASURE
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INDIA: YASIN BHATKAL, 4 OTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2013 HYDERABAD BLASTS
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