CA Regulators OK New Lethal Injection Methods
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Regulators have approved revised lethal injection procedures ordered by a federal judge, who halted capital punishment in the state until prison officials improved the execution process.
The new regulations were almost immediately challenged by a lawsuit that could delay executions even longer. The last California execution occurred in 2006.
The new regulations were approved by the Office of Administrative Law on Friday and included detailed instructions on how prison officials should administer the lethal three-drug cocktail to condemned inmates.
On Monday, death row inmate Mitchell Sims filed a lawsuit in Marin County Superior Court alleging, among other claims, that regulators failed to adequately consider other execution methods as an alternative to the three-drug cocktail.
