"Hey Sarge, did you bring the ammo?"
"No, I thought you did."
As California continues to try and execute a convicted murderer this week, the folly is unbelievable. First, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel to reconsider his original ruling allowing the execution of Albert Greenwood Brown now that the judge is satisfied that the prisoner won't feel pain during the lethal injection.
The court is troubled because a choice was given to Brown between the three-drug lethal injection cocktail and a one-drug lethal injection. The judges felt that this choice "put an undue burden on Brown".
Now comes Governor Arnold Katzenjammer with a 2-day reprieve to give Brown's attorneys time to present an argument that jurors (decades ago) were not advised that as a child, Brown was physically abused by family members. (I think it involved an aunt hitting him with a switch.)
But it gets better. If the execution is cleared to proceed this week (9 pm Thursday night), it will be only hours before one of the state's lethal drugs, sodium thiopental, is due to expire. That means a three-hour delay would cause the execution to be again put on hold because the drug has expired.
"Yee gads!!"
You can't make this stuff up, folks.
You can't make this stuff up, folks.
In case you are interested, in 1980, Brown kidnapped, raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl, then called her home and taunted the family with his deed. But we don't want him to feel pain now, do we?
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