Sept. 27
CALIFORNIA:
Some suffering permissible during execution, judge says
Far removed from San Quentin's death chamber, the unprecedented legal
challenge to California's lethal injection method got under way Tuesday in
a quiet San Jose courtroom as witnesses began to bore into the deta
Oct. 11
CALIFORNIA:
A Risk-Filled Use of DNA
At first glance, Proposition 69 seems an easy call: The measure, as its
backers argue, would probably help solve more cold crimes by rapidly
expanding the state's existing criminal DNA database. But the measure is
so broadly written that each ye
