One of the favorite tactics of the dishonest, unethical anti-death-penalty movement is abusing processes. A prime example is the notice-and-comment process for regulations in California. A state appellate court decided that the lethal injection protocol had to go through this process. So Corrections duly published the protocol and asked for comment. A very few people submitted legitimate comments on the protocol, which is all that is at issue, but an organized campaign spammed the department with a flood of irrelevant comments, mostly ranting about the death penalty generally.

It took months to pick through the heap to find the legitimate comments among the garbage.  Corrections then followed up with another notice on some very minor changes. Another spamming campaign flooded the department with about 12,000 comments.

These are the same people who claim that the death penalty is diverting resources from important government functions, yet the hypocrites intentionally impose added costs on government every chance they get.

The Legislature should react by exempting execution protocols from the Administrative Procedures Act.