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With Conditions, Judge Clears Way for a California Execution

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

With Conditions, Judge Clears Way for a California Execution By JESSE McKINLEY Published: September 24, 2010 NY Times SAN FRANCISCO ? A murderer and rapist has been cleared by a federal judge for execution in California next week in what would be the state?s first execution in more than four years. But the judge set specific conditions, including giving the condemned man the option of a single drug to be used in a lethal injection, an issue that has bogged down executions in the state before. The condemned man, Albert Greenwood Brown Jr., was convicted in 1982 of raping and strangling a 15-year-old girl with a shoelace in an orange grove in Riverside, Calif. He is scheduled to be executed at San Quentin prison on Wednesday morning. This month, Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 25, 2010 (boomark / email).