Judge Blocks California's First Execution In Five Years

Los Angeles Times - Top News, Los Angeles Times
Tue, 09/28/2010 - 7:11pm

A federal judge Tuesday blocked the execution of convicted rapist and murderer Albert Greenwood Brown, saying there was "no way" the court could conduct an adequate review of California's new lethal-injection procedures before the death sentence was to be carried out Thursday.

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