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Connecticut doing so would remove it from every state in New England except New Hampshire, and New Hampshire hasn't used it since being reinstated, not to mention it currently has only one person on death row...

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If you gave me favorable odds, I'd be willing to take a bet that California won't have any executions during Brown's upcoming term.

California relies on a very rare drug for lethal injections that only one company in the country makes. A few months ago there was an incident where a guy was scheduled to be executed the night before the drug expired so officials rushed to execute him. His execution was halted at the last minute by the State Supreme Court over how it was being rushed. The company that makes the drug has said they won't have anymore in stock until next year and in the past have expressed displeasure at it being used in executions. I think some states have talked to a British company about importing the drug but I'm not sure if anything will be finalized considering it would be even worse PR there. Getting an execution in California is already so tricky it becomes even trickier if you can't get the drugs needed and there's a supply bottleneck. That will no doubt increase the price and does California really need more spending now?

Actually a great argument against the death penalty from an economic standpoint, it basically requires states buy large quantities of a drug where 99% will probably go unused.