California calls off murderer's execution

[sonomak]

Source: CNN

The execution of a convicted rapist-murderer in California has been called off after rulings in state and federal courts, officials said Wednesday.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation removed Albert Greenwood Brown's execution from its calendar on Wednesday, a few hours after the California Supreme Court denied the state's request to proceed with the scheduled execution on Thursday night.

The state filed the request early Wednesday, after a federal court judge blocked Brown's execution Tuesday night. The execution would have been California's first since 2006, when challenges to the constitutionality of lethal injection forced the state to revise its measures.

The state had argued that unless the court allowed the execution to go forward, it would not be able to execute Brown until 2011 because its supply of the drug used to induce unconsciousness was going to expire on Friday.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/29/california.execution/?hpt=T2

[earcandle]

1. the longer we can postpone homicide the more civilized we become about healing our problems.

once we are civilized again, we will naturally remove the urge
to kill.  

[slackmaster]

2. One Brown gets to live a while longer, and another has managed to straddle the fence on the DP

Go Jerry. At least your position on the death penalty is more nuanced than that of your opponent, and you are on record as saying you'll uphold the law.