California Releases Plan To Use 1 Drug In Executions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California is proposing to allow corrections officials to choose one of four types of barbiturates to execute prisoners on death row.
The plan released Friday would allow officials to choose a drug depending on what’s available, as states deal with a nationwide shortage of execution drugs.
The single drug would replace the three drugs used in 2006, the last time California put an inmate to death.
California’s process for adopting a single-drug let