Pick yer poison, literally....

[n2doc]

Inmate gets one more day to pick fatal drug

Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

Sunday, September 26, 2010

(09-25) 19:35 PDT San Francisco -- A federal judge gave condemned murderer Albert Greenwood Brown another day to decide whether to be put to death with a single drug rather than the standard three-drug combination, but refused a renewed request late Saturday to examine the procedures for California's first scheduled execution in nearly five years.

U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jose, who had halted executions in the state in 2006, denied Brown's request for a stay on Friday and gave him a 6 p.m. Saturday deadline to choose the method of lethal injection - a heavy dose of a sedative or the sequence of three chemicals used in California and most other states.

After one of Brown's lawyers described a visit to his befuddled client at San Quentin State Prison on Saturday, Fogel extended the deadline to noon today. But he denied defense lawyers' request to reopen the question of whether the state's revised and untested injection methods contain safeguards that were absent from the procedures he rejected in 2006.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/26/MNHF1FJQUL.DTL

Sick country we live in.

[Edweird]

1. Single drug for sure. I think oxygen displacement with inert gas is best though.

If it wasn't for the potential for explosion I'd say Nitrous Oxide. If the time ever comes that I feel it's time to 'check out', I'm using Helium or maybe Argon if I still have my welding setup. I'd love to use nitrous, but it's hard to come across.

[Upton]

2. He's lucky he has a choice

his victim, who was raped then strangled, sure didn't..