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California | San Quentin begins prison reform - but not for those on death row

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California is transferring everyone on death row at San Quentin prison to other places, as it tries to reinvent the state's most notorious facility as a rehabilitation centre. Many in this group will now have new freedoms. But they are also asking why they've been excluded from the reform - and whether they'll be safe in new prisons. Keith Doolin still remembers the day in 2019 when workers came to dismantle one of the United States' most infamous death chambers.

'Nitrogen Law' takes effect in Oklahoma

A new law resulted from last year's botched execution of death row inmate Clayton Lockett and the problem Oklahoma has had acquiring the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections. 

Written by state Rep. Mike Christian, a former Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper and staunch advocate of the death penalty, it paves the way for Oklahoma to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates if lethal injection is ruled unconstitutional or if the necessary drugs become unavailable.

There are no reports of nitrogen gas ever being used to execute humans, and critics have voiced concern that the method is untested.

Source: Associated Press, November 2, 2015

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