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Cal Brown wins a stay

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Cal Brown will not be killed tonight as the Washington Supreme Court has unanimously stayed his death: The Washington Supreme Court has stayed the execution of condemned killer Cal Coburn Brown, issuing its decision less than eight hours before Brown was due to die. In the ruling issued Thursday afternoon, the court rejected a lower court decision issued Wednesday and ordered that Brown, who has spent more than 15 years on death row, be allowed to join a lawsuit challenging the state’s lethal injection protocols. Brown, 50, was sentenced to death in the 1991 slaying of Holly Washa. Brown told investigators he tortured and raped Washa over a two-day period before slashing her throat and leaving her body in the trunk of her car near Sea-Tac Airport...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).