California Eyes 1-Drug Executions Amid Debate

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Californians face a watershed year as they prepare to decide whether to resume executions that stopped a decade ago or end them entirely.
While advocates jockey to put both choices before voters this fall, officials overseeing the 746 condemned inmates on the nation’s largest death row are pushing ahead with plans to use a single lethal drug to meet legal requirements amid a nationwide shortage of execution drugs.
They will hold a public hearing Friday on th