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California Execution Stayed

By Steve Hall

Judge Fogel's Order Following Remand is available in Adobe .pdf format. The New York Times reports, "Judges Cancels California Execution, by Jesse McKinley and Malia Wollan. Facing sharp questions from a federal appellate panel and concerns about a drug used in lethal injections, a federal judge in California has canceled what would have been California?s first execution in more than four years. Albert G. Brown Jr., 56, was convicted in 1982 of raping and strangling a 15-year-old girl in Riverside, Calif., two years before and had been scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday night. But late Tuesday, Judge Jeremy D. Fogel of Federal District Court in San Jose issued a stay after a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ordered him to again consider the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).