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California Officials Display New San Quentin's Death Chamber

By Steve Hall

The new execution chamber was on display for journalists, yesterday.  Meanwhile, action resumed in a federal district court as Judge Jeremy Fogel revisits California lethal injection procedures.  There is a great deal of front-page California coverage this morning. Paul Elias writes the AP report, "Brown wants executions to resume in California," via Google News. Whether California's first execution in more than four years will occur next week remained an open question Tuesday, as a judge grappled with a demand from the state attorney general's office to resume lethal injections. A hearing was held on the issue after a Riverside County judge last month set an execution date of Sept. 29 for Albert Greenwood Brown, who was convicted of abducting, raping and killing a 15-year-old girl on her way home from school in 1980...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).