Calif. Extends Moratorium on Executions
The federal judge in California who issued a ban on California executions until the lethal injection issues were fixed, has extended the moratorium.
California's 15-month-old moratorium on executions was extended at least until October on Friday to give a federal judge time to visit a planned new death chamber at San Quentin and consider an array of proposed changes in the state's lethal injection procedures.
At a hearing in San Jose, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel said he needs to see the rebuilt execution chamber before hearing arguments on the state's revisions in prison staff selection, training and infusion of the lethal chemicals.
Judge Fogel will visit San Quentin in October. After that, appeals are likely.
Here's why California needed a moratorium:
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