SF News 9th Circuit Reverses CA Judge Who Ruled Delays In Death Penalty 'Cruel And Unusual' A panel of three judges appointed to the bench of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals by Democrats has reversed a July 2014 decision by a US District Judge that ruled the
SF News Poll: Should California Abolish The Death Penalty This November? When Californians head to their polling places to cast their big Obama vs. Romney votes this election season, they will also have the first opportunity, in over three decades, to abolish the practice
SF News Two California Sea Lions Sentenced To Death For Eating Salmon In Portland, Oregon where the locals apparently don't love the sea lions enough to give them their own deck to lounge around on, two California sea lions were put to death by lethal
SF News Judge Mathis Speaks Out On the Execution of Troy Davis Convicted in the 1989 murder of an off-duty Savannah police officer, Troy Davis presented affidavits of seven of the nine witnesses at his trial who have since recanted their testimony. Davis never received
SF News California May Proceed With Executing People In a court filing yesterday, the State of California (Jerry Brown's office to be exact) said they had obtained a fresh supply of twelve grams of the lethal injection drug sodium thiopental with
SF News State Supreme Court Blocks Albert Greenwood Brown's Execution Albert Greenwood Brown had yet another stay of execution handed to him, this time care of the California Supreme Court. The Chronicle reports: "The justices unanimously denied the state's request to allow new
SF News Next Wednesday: California's First Execution Since 2006 U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel has cleared the way for California's first execution since 2006 "after the state revised its lethal injection procedures." Albert Greenwood Brown, convicted of raping and murdering
