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Washington State Prepares to Conduct Single-Drug Execution

By Steve Hall

The latest AP report in, "Wash. prepares for first execution since 2001," via the Seattle Times.  It's written by Shannon Dininny.  Officials at the Washington State Penitentiary were making final preparations Thursday as the clock ticked toward the first execution of a Washington inmate in nine years.Death penalty opponents have planned vigils and protests in larger cities across the state, and prison officials have said they will erect barricades for the protesters and media expected to gather outside the southeast Washington prison.Cal Coburn Brown, 52, is scheduled to be executed at 12:01 a.m. Friday for the 1991 murder of a 22-year-old Seattle-area woman.He would be the first Washington inmate to die by lethal injection of just one drug...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 09, 2010 (boomark / email).