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California Supreme Court Jumps into Lethal Injection Fray

By Steve Hall

The California Supreme Court ruling is here, in Adobe .pdf format. "Calif execution try collapses after court setbacks," is the AP report by Paul Elias, via Google News. California's first execution attempt in nearly five years collapsed Wednesday amid two adverse court rulings in as many days and an impending shortage of drugs that made the lethal injection of a convicted rapist-murderer impossible. State officials called off the execution of Albert Greenwood Brown after a state Supreme Court ruling made Friday the earliest possible day that Brown could be given a lethal injection. But by then, the state's entire supply of a drug used during the process would have expired. It was unclear when the state might try again to execute Brown, since it won't receive a new supply of sodium thiopental until early next year at the soonest...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 30, 2010 (boomark / email).