September 1, 2011 – NBC Bay Area News A long-running challenge to California’s death penalty procedures that has resulted in executions being put on hold for five years has been assigned to a new federal judge in San Francisco. The reassignment to U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg was announced this morning by the Northern California federal court’s executive committee. The 2006 lawsuit by several death row inmates was handled by…[For full story: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/politics/States-Death-Penalty-Gets-New-Judge-128937598.html ]
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California – State’s Death Penalty Gets New Judge