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WA: almost midnight for condemned murderer

Here in progressive Washington, it looks like we're proceeding to an execution. From the Seattle Times: WA judge denies bid for execution stay A Thurston County judge denied a stay of execution Wednesday for Cal Coburn Brown, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection early Friday for the 1991 rape and murder of a 22-year-old Seattle-area woman. Brown's lawyers immediately appealed to the Washington Supreme Court, which earlier this week refused to delay the killing on different grounds...Brown's attorneys asked Thurston County Superior Court Judge Chris Wickham to stay the execution, based on an argument that Washington's procedure for administering lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Another Washington death row inmate...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).