One of the lesser-used provisions of California's Administrative Procedure Act permits interested persons to petition for a regulation to promulgated.  We at CJLF have filed petitions on behalf of murder victims' families formally asking CDCR to establish by regulation an execution protocol.

It has been two years since CDCR said the Governor had directed it to develop a one-drug protocol to eliminate the problems and the litigation over the three-drug method.  There is simply no excuse for taking so long.

CJLF's press release is here.