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States across the country are challenging execution by lethal injection on the charge that it violates the constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual punishment." In California, there's a procedural challenge: a judge tentatively ruled that state procedure has been violated. Host: Michael Krasny Guests:
Bob Egelko, reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle
David Savage, Supreme Court reporter for the LA Times
Franklin E Zimring, William G Simon professor of law and Wolfen distinguished scholar at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and author of several books including "The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment"
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