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Where Things Stand in California

By Steve Hall

I'm going to devote this post to news coverage; the next post to editorials, a column, and an OpEd. The latest AP dispatch is, "Court orders hearing for condemned Calif. inmate," by Paul Elias, via Google News. A federal appeals court ordered a trial judge late Monday to reconsider his ruling that paved the way for California's first execution in nearly five years.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel erred when he offered death row inmate Albert Greenwood Brown the choice of being put to death with a one-drug lethal injection or a three-drug cocktail.Such a decision is "not consistent with California law" and placed "an undue burden" on Brown, the appeals court said in an unsigned opinion...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).