CRM/LAW C115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Special Circumstances, Sodium Thiopental, San Quentin, California

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C115
• Professor: Susan Turner

Document Summary

San quentin, california: the icon of the death penalty in california, the entrance to death row, kind of medieval-looking. Old death chamber, san quentin: this was also used, yet pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s: see(cid:373)ed that people (cid:449)ere(cid:374)"t full(cid:455) a(cid:374)esthetized a(cid:374)d suffered i(cid:374) pai(cid:374) New death chamber, san quentin: yet not used due to problems with death penalty. In 1978, prop 7 reaffirmed the death penalty in ca: current statute. Inconsistent and unreliable screening of execution team members: a lack of meaningful training, supervision, and oversight of the execution team. Improper mixing preparation, and administration of sodium thiopental by the execution team. Inadequate lighting, overcrowded conditions, and poorly designed facilities in which the execution team must work. In 2012, the proposition to replace death penalty with life without parole (lwop) failed. In 2015, cdcr files proposed adoption of lethal injection, using single drug sedative: several drug options available, amobarbital, pentobarbital, secobarbital, or thiopental, public comment received, not yet in effect.