Execution Stayed Indefinitely

[Joyce Rybandt]

Dear Dharma Friends,

 

If you’ve been paying attention to the news, it looks as though the execution that was scheduled for Thursday at 9 pm has been cancelled. I hope this is a final decision for now. I received the message below from Alan Senauke yesterday and waited until now to forward it in case something changed. Thank you for your concern and your patience with this flurry of emails.

 

With metta,

 

Joyce Rybandt

 

From: Alan Senauke [mailto:al...@kushiki.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 2:53 PM
To: Alan Senauke
Subject: Execution Stayed Indefinitely

 

From the SF Chronicle tonight:

 

(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.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/28/BAOB1FL5OU.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz10rZchGwN

 

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 the Clear View Project website <www.clearviewproject.org>.  Thanks for all that you do. 

 

Peace, 

Alan Senauke