KGO ABC7 News 500PM July 17, 2014
The federal judges ruling is something Death Penalty opponents have been waiting for and they say the system has been broken for some time. And matt jerry is with a group that has fought executions. We have 747 people alive on death row, but there have been no executions for the past eight years, and in fact since the Death Penalty was reinstituted in the 1970s, there have only been 13 executions in california. The state temporarily stopped executing prisoners in 2006 when another federal judge ruled that flaws in the lethal injection protocol created a risk for painful and failed executions, ...