Prison officials draw up single-drug protocol but death penalty has not been carried out since 2006 and public support is in declineCalifornia prison officials have filed proposed new guidelines for deadly injection, a step towards resuming executions in a state that has not carried one out since 2006.
The most populous US state – where public support for the death penalty has been slipping for years – stopped executing prisoners after Clarence Ray Allen was achieve to death nearly 10 years ago for three murders in Fresno.
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Source: theguardian.com