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CA gov delays execution to allow review of appeals
SAN FRANCISCO – California's first execution in nearly five years was pushed back almost two days Monday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to allow courts more time to consider the condemned inmate's appeals.
Albert Greenwood Brown is now scheduled to die by lethal injection at 9 p.m. Thursday, said Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Brown initially was scheduled for execution at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
Brown's attorneys have filed simultaneous appeals in federal and state courts, claiming California improperly adopted its new lethal injection procedures. They also allege that execution under the new regulations would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.
The 45-hour reprieve pushes the execution to within hours of the Friday expiration date on the state's supply of sodium thiopental, one of the drugs used in the lethal injection process.
Hospira, the only company in the country that makes the drug, said it has production problems and can't deliver any new shipments until early next year. Several other states have rescheduled executions because of the drug shortage.
The company has also told prison officials across the country, "we do not support the use of any of our products in capital punishment procedures."
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Sodium thiopental would be the first drug administered to Brown, who is to receive two shots each of 1.5 grams of the sedative. If the warden determines Brown is still awake, he would receive two more shots of 1.5 grams, according to the state's regulations. Once he's unconsciousness, Brown would be injected with pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride, which should prove fatal.
Brown's attorneys argue that the process puts the inmate at risk of suffering extreme pain. They also argue the regulations were drafted improperly and ignored the many public comments warning about the perils of the three-drug cocktail.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_california_executions
this boggles my mind....its death...yet, they should "feel" nothing....as if sitting on death row for decades is not "extreme pain"....i bet that some of these guys want to just get a bullet to the brain and get it over with....but they can't....because in CA, you are entitled to rights on death row, despite the fact you want to die.
the argument is not just about the death penalty, but about 'how' they should be kiled...should we just pump them full of morphine or opium and let them have a great 'dream' before they die?
CA gov delays execution to allow review of appeals
SAN FRANCISCO – California's first execution in nearly five years was pushed back almost two days Monday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to allow courts more time to consider the condemned inmate's appeals.
Albert Greenwood Brown is now scheduled to die by lethal injection at 9 p.m. Thursday, said Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Brown initially was scheduled for execution at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
Brown's attorneys have filed simultaneous appeals in federal and state courts, claiming California improperly adopted its new lethal injection procedures. They also allege that execution under the new regulations would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.
The 45-hour reprieve pushes the execution to within hours of the Friday expiration date on the state's supply of sodium thiopental, one of the drugs used in the lethal injection process.
Hospira, the only company in the country that makes the drug, said it has production problems and can't deliver any new shipments until early next year. Several other states have rescheduled executions because of the drug shortage.
The company has also told prison officials across the country, "we do not support the use of any of our products in capital punishment procedures."
...
Sodium thiopental would be the first drug administered to Brown, who is to receive two shots each of 1.5 grams of the sedative. If the warden determines Brown is still awake, he would receive two more shots of 1.5 grams, according to the state's regulations. Once he's unconsciousness, Brown would be injected with pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride, which should prove fatal.
Brown's attorneys argue that the process puts the inmate at risk of suffering extreme pain. They also argue the regulations were drafted improperly and ignored the many public comments warning about the perils of the three-drug cocktail.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_california_executions
this boggles my mind....its death...yet, they should "feel" nothing....as if sitting on death row for decades is not "extreme pain"....i bet that some of these guys want to just get a bullet to the brain and get it over with....but they can't....because in CA, you are entitled to rights on death row, despite the fact you want to die.
the argument is not just about the death penalty, but about 'how' they should be kiled...should we just pump them full of morphine or opium and let them have a great 'dream' before they die?
