States' death row injections get OK after high court ruling (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Thu, 04/17/2008 - 5:20am

This January 1996 file photo provided by the California Department of Corrections shows the entrance to the execution chamber and the lethal injection table at California's San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif.<br /><br />Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the Wednesday, April 16, 2008, U.S. Supreme Court decision to allow lethal injections for death row inmates affirms California's capital punishment procedure and would allow executions to resume.<br /><br />(AP Photo/California Department of Corrections)AP - Many states wasted little time trying to get executions back on track following a U.S.

Supreme Court ruling upholding the use of a three-drug lethal cocktail.




 

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