California Supports The Life Of Rapists and Murderers.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

We should be executing a lot more people than we do already.... California is already slacking.... let them move forward damnit!

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

(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.

The high court said the reasoning was not compelling enough to remove obstacles to the execution, especially given that a separate challenge of the state's protocol for lethal injection remains pending.

The action comes after a week of furious legal maneuvering over Brown's execution for raping and murdering high school student Susan Jordan in 1980.

The 15-year-old was walking to Arlington High School in Riverside when Brown pulled her into an orange grove, according to court documents.

He raped her, strangled her with her own shoelace, and took her school identification cards and books.

Later that evening, Brown looked up her family in the phone book and called their home, court documents say.

"Hello, Mrs. Jordan, Susie isn't home from school yet, is she?" court documents quoted him as saying. "You will never see your daughter again. You can find her body on the corner of Victoria and Gibson."

During the penalty phase of Brown's trial, his lawyer said his client was remorseful. He also presented psychiatric evidence suggesting that Brown had emotional problems, including sexual maladjustment and dysfunction.

The jury deliberated for three hours before returning a death penalty verdict, according to court documents.

A review that began in 2006 of California's lethal injection protocol implemented a de facto moratorium on executions in the state until August 29, when new regulations took effect.

At the time, a Riverside County Superior Court judge set Brown's execution for September 29. Since then, his lawyers have challenged the execution in state and federal courts, arguing that no executions should be carried out in the state until the court reviews the new protocol.

Meanwhile, the cases that had spurred the review of California's lethal injection procedures remained in limbo, prompting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant Brown a temporary reprieve of execution until September 30 to allow the courts time to review the other cases.

Last week, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled that Brown's execution could go forward and gave Brown the option of choosing between a one-drug or a three-drug option for his lethal injection.

On Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Fogel to rethink that decision and review whether California's new lethal injection procedures protect an inmate from a cruel and inhumane death.

"The district court's decision to provide Brown the choice of a one-drug option is not consistent with California state law and procedures," the appeals court ruling said. "California law does not provide the condemned a choice between a three-drug protocol or a one-drug option."

Fogel said it would be impossible to complete that review before Brown's execution date. Moreover, he noted that it was not in the best interest of justice to expedite his decision in light of the state's revelation that its supply of sodium thiopental -- the drug used to induce unconsciousness -- will expire on Friday.

In its ruling Wednesday, the California Supreme Court echoed Brown's sentiments.

"By choosing an execution date for Brown of September 29, 2010, with presumptive knowledge that it faced the imminent loss of an essential ingredient to the execution on October 1, 2010, the state has itself contributed to circumstances incompatible with the orderly resolution, pursuant to normal procedures, of pending legal issues," the justices wrote.

California's last execution was on January 17, 2006, when Clarence Ray Allen was put to death for three counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances. From behind bars, he had helped orchestrate a deadly armed robbery at a convenience store.

[Darnell 8,478]

geez - I wonder how long it takes to make the drug once the order is placed?

Oh well - state government purchase orders seem to take a long time to 'get processed' anyway...

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

geez - I wonder how long it takes to make the drug once the order is placed?

Oh well - state government purchase orders seem to take a long time to 'get processed' anyway...

kinda makes ya wonder how that nhc is gonna work out too.

[evli1966 88]

They are people too and I pray your family never experiences a memeber to be executed for what ever crime they commit.

With that said...

The State convicted this man and sentenced him to death

The State failed to maintain an adequate supply of the drugs with adequate expiration dates.

The Protocol of the injections is being challenged fr what ever reasons

The State was failing to follow the Law established by the State itself which allowed this man to escape the death penalty

These mistakes by the State do not constitute a stated supporting life of a Murderers who recieve the death penalty or that they have lenient laws on Rapists

I do not agree with your topic headline.

This would have been better

"California calls off murderer's execution" title of article

"California Courts Prevent Execution of Brown Murderer and Rapist of a teenage girl" The crime he was sentenced to death for

While I agree the sentence should be carried I believe the State failed its obligation to the people to carry out the sentence. This man was was sentenced in 1982 why was the sentence not carried out within 28 years...now That is Bull #######.

This victim's family have not seen justice in 28 years

[Obama 2012 1,714]

They are people too and I pray your family never experiences a memeber to be executed for what ever crime they commit.

They are people. Probably why it'd be more humane to have the death pentalty take effect within 24 hours of setencing. One magic bullet to the head and be done with it. Better than making people wait and suffer with the thoughts in their head of what's to come...

[The_Dude 1,142]

We should be executing a lot more people than we do already.... California is already slacking.... let them move forward damnit!

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

(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. .............

Just a suggestion Paul, why would you put such a false title for the thread? California was forced to call off the execution as per a federal court ruling. Instead, you had to try to score hack partisan politic points. Nice job corky.

kinda makes ya wonder how that nhc is gonna work out too.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Just a suggestion Paul, why would you put such a false title for the thread? California was forced to call off the execution as per a federal court ruling. Instead, you had to try to score hack partisan politic points. Nice job corky.

They were forced to? So courts can stop people from doing something?

If California had the balls, they'd have gone ahead with the execution instead of listening to a Federal Government that has no business interfering in matters of the state.

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If California had the balls, they'd have gone ahead with the execution instead of listening to a Federal Government that has no business interfering in matters of the state.

[The_Dude 1,142]

They were forced to? So courts can stop people from doing something?

If California had the balls, they'd have gone ahead with the execution instead of listening to a Federal Government that has no business interfering in matters of the state.

Seriously, you should proofread what you type before posting.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Seriously, you should proofread what you type before posting.

what? Because you cannot fathom the idea that a state would act on its own?

Yes, we're all robots and should do what the elite tell us to do. I mean after all, they all know best and we know nothing.

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... they all know best and we know nothing.

What's this 'we' stuff? It's more like they know better than you because you know nothing.

[The_Dude 1,142]

what? Because you cannot fathom the idea that a state would act on its own?

Yes, we're all robots and should do what the elite tell us to do. I mean after all, they all know best and we know nothing.

Oh Paul, I thought you, the "self-styled constitutional scholar' of all people would comprehend a challenge to the execution by a federal court on the grounds of constitutional merit. I guess Beck U didn't teach that course.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Oh Paul, I thought you, the "self-styled constitutional scholar' of all people would comprehend a challenge to the execution by a federal court on the grounds of constitutional merit. I guess Beck U didn't teach that course.

Criminal charges, criminal punishment, etc. are not of federal concern. They are a state oriented item. Therefore the federal government has no jurisdiction over said matters. Anything not under federal law, as per the 9th/10th amendments if up to the states, etc.

Just because a court issues a ruling, doesn't mean they have the jurisdiction to do so. A state can ultimately tell the SCOTUS to buzz off if there are no laws on the books supporting a federal courts decision. It's up to congress to make sure that rulings of the court are upheld in federal law.

[Heracles 417]

#### the Constitution. Corporal punishment needs to be reintroduced here, as it's more effective than capital.

Cheapest, yet most effective, form of rehabilitation there is.

Edited September 30, 2010 by Heracles

[evli1966 88]

They are people. Probably why it'd be more humane to have the death pentalty take effect within 24 hours of setencing. One magic bullet to the head and be done with it. Better than making people wait and suffer with the thoughts in their head of what's to come...

While I agree there are few reasons to delay an execution I also agree that all avenues of appeals must be followed. But delaying 28 years is excessive.

Executions in 24 hours no matter how we feel about it shouldn't happen to many innocent lives have been lost due to unfair prosecution or horrible defense attorneys

#### the Constitution. Corporal punishment needs to be reintroduced here, as it's more effective than capital.

Cheapest, yet most effective, form of rehabilitation there is.

I understand Capital Punishment is the Death sentence but not sure what you mean by corporal punishment?