A prolonged stay: The reasons behind the slow pace of executions
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By Raymond Bonner, Special to ProPublica
States that impose the death penalty have been facing a crisis in recent years: They are short on the drugs used in executions.
In California, which has the country’s largest death row population, the chief justice of the state supreme court has said there are unlikely to be any executions for three years, in part due to the shortage of appropriate lethal drugs. As a result, state prosecutors are calling for a return of the gas chamber.