From the San Francisco Chronicle:

(09-28) 20:05 PDT SAN JOSE — A federal judge blocked the execution of condemned murderer Albert Greenwood Brown late Tuesday, saying he needed months, not just a few days, to decide whether California’s new lethal injection procedures remove the risk of a prolonged and painful death.

Brown, 56, was scheduled to be executed at 9 p.m. Thursday at San Quentin State Prison for raping and strangling 15-year-old Susan Jordan of Riverside in 1980. It was to be the state’s first execution since 2006, when U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jose found numerous flaws in the prison’s injection practices.

As there are further developments in this case and in California’s shameful efforts to reinstate the barbarity of capital punishment, I will let you know via email and via this website. Thanks for all that you do.

Peace,
Alan Senauke