Shorter Arnold Schwarzenegger: We MUST change this system a federal judge has told us to change!
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday ordered his administration to fix problems in California’s lethal injection protocol “to ensure the death penalty procedure is constitutional.”
Schwarzenegger acted in response to a stinging decision issued Friday by U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose, who said the state’s system “is broken, but … can be fixed.”
Fogel, who earlier visited the death chamber in San Quentin and held a four-day hearing in September, said the evidence “is more than adequate to establish” that the state’s implementation of its lethal injection procedure violates the Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The judge gave state officials 30 days to let him know what they planned to do and he urged the governor to get involved.
Why is this news?
…by the way, time is running out, but you can still get your Arnold holiday stocking stuffers. Good to know that the highest constitutional officer in the state sells shit on his website like he’s Bill O’Reilly.