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From California

By Steve Hall

"Rushed to Death," is the title of an editorial in today's San Francisco Chronicle. California has been trying, in vain, to carry out its first execution in nearly five years. Its efforts to execute death row inmate Albert Greenwood Brown Jr., who was convicted in a 1980 rape and murder, have been stymied by the courts, and the facts of the situation sound like a grim farce. And: This plan didn't go over well with the federal courts, which didn't feel that they'd had enough time to review the state's new lethal injection procedures - or the state courts, which didn't feel that the state was following proper protocol. So now the whole thing's off, until at least next year.This absurd episode merely points out the difficulties - and the expense - of capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 01, 2010 (boomark / email).