By C1 Staff
SACRAMENTO — Prison officials in California proposed new guidelines for using lethal injection to kill condemned inmates.
KFGO reports that officials proposed a single-drug protocol but did not release further details. The protocol is under review and will be made public next week, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Executions in California have been on hold for nearly a decade after the execution of Clarence Ray Allen for three murders in Fresno. Public support for the death penalty has been slipping for years.
The proposed single-drug protocol will be open to input from the public starting next week, and it could take up to a year for the rules to be finalized.
Since Allen’s execution in 2006, juries in California have sentenced 181 people to death. California has executed only 13 people since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978.