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础听聽appeals court upheld a judge's ruling on Thursday prohibiting the state from executing condemned inmates until it adopts a new聽, in the latest judicial move against capital punishment in the state.

聽has 736 inmates on death row but has not executed anyone in seven years.

A federal judge imposed a moratorium on聽executions聽there in 2006, ruling that the most populous U.S. state's use of a lethal three-drug cocktail amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.

Since then, corrections officials have tried to fix deficiencies in the injection procedure, but a state trial court last year imposed its own separate moratorium on聽executions聽after deeming the process "a substantial failure."

罢丑耻谤蝉诲补测'蝉听听1蝉迟听聽ruling came in a challenge by condemned murderer聽, who sued in 2010 arguing that one of three drugs to be used for聽executions聽was unnecessary and would cause excruciating pain.

Sims' attorneys also alleged the state failed to follow procedures in formulating its latest combination of drugs to be used in the lethal cocktail.

听闯耻诲驳别听听辞蹿听, the site of San Quentin State Prison's death row, last year ordered a moratorium on killing inmates by lethal injection until the聽聽(CDCR) enacted new regulations in compliance with state rules.

A three-judge appeals court panel upheld D'Opal's decision.

State corrections department spokesman聽聽said his agency had received the ruling and was reviewing it. He declined further comment.

The cocktail of drugs used in state聽executions聽contains the anesthetic sodium pentothal, muscle paralyzer pancuronium bromide and heart-stopper potassium chloride.

State officials now must decide whether to revise the rules regarding lethal injections or appeal Thursday's ruling to the聽.

D'Opal found that the state failed to sufficiently explore alternatives to the three-drug combination and failed to explain why a single drug would not be as effective.

聽was the last inmate to be executed in聽聽in January 2006.