Judge clears way for California's first execution since 2006, page 1

A federal judge on Friday denied a stay of execution for a California man who raped and murdered a 15-year-old in 1981, but gave Albert Greenwood Brown a choice of whether to die by single injection or the stat

so.. Looks like California want's to jump on the execution bandwagon too, after being off it since 2006..

of course this guy is a piece of crap and shoulda been wacked a long time ago..but why now cali? huh?

If the execution proceeds as scheduled on Wednesday, Brown could become the first person to be executed in California in nearly five years, ever since legal challenges arose prompting the state to revise its lethal injection procedure. And, if the execution goes forward, he'll also be the first inmate to be put to death in California's new lethal injection chamber, which was modified to meet requirements to come out of the review. If, however, Brown elects to be executed by a single injection of sodium thiopental and the state refuses, a stay of his execution will be ordered, U.S. District Judge Jerry Fogel wrote in a decision issued today. Fogel noted that present litigation had nothing to do with "the wisdom or morality of the death penalty" but rather, the limited legal issue of whether the 56-year-old was entitled to a stay of execution.

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