{"id":3119,"date":"2007-08-14T09:29:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T15:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2017-05-21T03:08:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T09:08:45","slug":"new-rules-would-let-gonzales-fast-track-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/new-rules-would-let-gonzales-fast-track-executions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Rules Would Let Gonzales &#8220;Fast Track&#8221; Executions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/gonzales.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/gonzales.thumbnail.gif\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department is putting the final touches on regulations that could give Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales important new sway over death penalty cases in California and other states, including the power to shorten the time that death row inmates have to appeal convictions to federal courts.<\/p>\n<p>The rules implement a little-noticed provision in last year&#8217;s reauthorization of the Patriot Act that gives the attorney general the power to decide whether individual states are providing adequate counsel for defendants in death penalty cases. The authority has been held by federal judges.<\/p>\n<p>Under the rules now being prepared, if a state requested it and Gonzales agreed, prosecutors could use &#8220;fast track&#8221; procedures that could shave years off the time that a death row inmate has to appeal to the federal courts after conviction in a state court.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-na-penalty14aug14,0,2441069.story?coll=la-home-center\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times The Justice Department is putting the final touches on regulations that could give Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales important new sway over death penalty cases in California and other states, including the power to shorten the time that death row inmates have to appeal convictions to federal courts. 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