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Post by wrench on Aug 31, 2010 18:16:01 GMT -6
federal judge refuses to block cal brown's sept 10 execution. however, further appeals are possible, the cruel and unusual punishment argument. seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012768974_brown01m.htmlA U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday refused to block the execution of Cal Coburn Brown, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection sometime after midnight Sept. 10. The request for a stay before Judge John Coughenour in Seattle was the last remaining motion pending in court, but appeals are expected. "This ruling moves Mr. Brown closer to facing the verdict that a jury imposed on him more than 16 years ago when he was found guilty of aggravated first-degree murder," McKenna said in statement. "While he has confessed to his crimes, we anticipate Mr. Brown will continue to seek additional delays in the 9th Circuit or the U.S. Supreme Court, which we will contest as they occur as we seek justice for the victim, her family and the state." Seattle attorney Gil Levy, who is on Brown's defense team, said Tuesday afternoon that an appeal would be filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday. "We disagree with the decision denying the stay," Levy said. Brown, 52, was convicted of the 1991 rape, torture and murder of Holly Washa, 21, whose body was found in the trunk of her own car in a parking lot near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Her throat had been slashed, the strap of her purse had been tied tight around her neck and she had been tortured and raped repeatedly. Brown's lawyers had argued that he is protected under the federal Civil Rights Act, which guarantees that citizens should not suffer a "deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws" at the hands of federal authorities. Brown's defense team also argued that he is also guaranteed protections against "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Eighth Amendment. In his ruling, Coughenour said that filing for a court injunction based on the Civil Rights Act and the Eighth Amendment does not entitle a death row defendant to an automatic stay. He cited the U.S. Supreme Court, which has determined a "stay of execution is an equitable remedy. It is not available as a matter of right, and equity must be sensitive to the state's strong interest in enforcing its criminal judgments without undue interference from the federal courts." Coughenour said that Brown has not argued "that he is entitled to live. He argues only that he should not be made to suffer as he dies." "Given the strong interest of crime victims in finality, and given that more than nineteen years have passed since Plaintiff murdered Ms. Washa, this Court cannot say that the public interest favors an injunction," Coughenour wrote in his order. "Neither the family and loved ones of Ms. Washa nor the State of Washington can claim an interest in executing an innocent man, or a man convicted after an unfair trial. Plaintiff nowhere argues that he is innocent or that his trial was unfair, however. Those arguments were heard and foreclosed long ago." Brown's execution was stayed by the state Supreme Court in March 2009, less than eight hours before he was scheduled to die, due to an argument over the way the state performs lethal injections. In July, the state Supreme Court lifted the stay. The last person to be executed in Washington state was James Elledge, 58, who died by lethal injection in August 2001 for the 1998 strangling and stabbing of Eloise Jane Fitzner, 47, at a Lynnwood church.
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Post by ichy on Aug 31, 2010 20:49:40 GMT -6
The state of Washington appears to be very serious about this. I don't want to get my hopes up too high since last time Brown got a stay just hours before he was supposed to be put to death, but unlike those death warrants in CA this one appears to be (pardon the pun) dead serious.
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Post by wrench on Sept 2, 2010 17:19:49 GMT -6
brown's lawyers ask federal circuit court to block execution. seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theblotter/2012793891_browns_lawyers_ask_federal_cir.htmlLawyers for a condemned man who is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 10 have asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to issue a stay. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour denied to block Cal Coburn Brown's execution, saying that filing for a court injunction based on the Civil Rights Act and the Eighth Amendment does not entitle a death-row defendant to an automatic stay. On Thursday, Seattle lawyers Gil Levy and Suzanne Elliott filed an emergency motion for a stay of execution with the San Francisco-based appellate court. In the 29-page filing, Brown's lawyer are asking the court to "stay his [Brown's] execution pending completion of discovery and a full and fair hearing in District Court." Brown's lawyers say in court filings they are concerned with the training and qualifications of the Department of Corrections employees who are scheduled to administer the lethal injection used in the death chamber. Judith Kay, an ethics professor at the University of Puget Sound, said she has been in contact with Brown and other death row inmates for nearly 10 years. Kay said she met with Brown at the Washington State Penitentiary, in Walla Walla, last week and said that he remains hopeful an appeals court would grant a stay. "He said it's not going to be over until it's really, really over," said Kay, who is opposed to the death penalty. "He's anxious and nervous but handling it well." If the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denies to issue a stay, it is likely that Brown's lawyers will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Brown, 52, was convicted of the 1991 rape, torture and murder of Holly Washa, 21, whose body was found in the trunk of her car in a parking lot near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Her throat had been slashed, and she had been tortured and raped repeatedly. Brown's execution was stayed by the state Supreme Court in March 2009, less than eight hours before he was scheduled to die, because of an argument over the way the state performs lethal injections. In July, the state Supreme Court lifted the stay.
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Post by moonlight on Sept 6, 2010 14:34:34 GMT -6
So... lets see what we've go here. A long standing criminal record from 1977 involved a knife assault on a woman in a shopping center. Then another conviction from 1984 for another assault on a woman. And then the rape and murder on May 23, 1991.
Not exactly a model student of Oregon State University. Just wonder what was he looking for there. Maybe for some babes to hang around with who knows? Its OK. I too enjoyed their attention during my undergraduate times some 15 years ago emmm...
I say... more than enough to send him to hell via the IVs.
Undesirable elements like Cal Brown should be eliminated from society for the benefit and sake of the entire American public.
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Post by mst3k4evur on Sept 6, 2010 18:13:23 GMT -6
So... lets see what we've go here. A long standing criminal record from 1977 involved a knife assault on a woman in a shopping center. Then another conviction from 1984 for another assault on a woman. And then the rape and murder on May 23, 1991. Not exactly a model student of Oregon State University. Just wonder what was he looking for there. Maybe for some babes to hang around with who knows? Its OK. I too enjoyed their attention during my undergraduate times some 15 years ago emmm... I say... more than enough to send him to hell via the IVs. Undesirable elements like Cal Brown should be eliminated from society for the benefit and sake of the entire American public. You forgot the rape and attempted murder of a woman in California shortly after Washa.
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Post by wrench on Sept 6, 2010 20:15:29 GMT -6
So... lets see what we've go here. A long standing criminal record from 1977 involved a knife assault on a woman in a shopping center. Then another conviction from 1984 for another assault on a woman. And then the rape and murder on May 23, 1991. Not exactly a model student of Oregon State University. Just wonder what was he looking for there. Maybe for some babes to hang around with who knows? Its OK. I too enjoyed their attention during my undergraduate times some 15 years ago emmm... I say... more than enough to send him to hell via the IVs. Undesirable elements like Cal Brown should be eliminated from society for the benefit and sake of the entire American public. You forgot the rape and attempted murder of a woman in California shortly after Washa. if i'm correct, that's how he was caught because she managed to survive the attack.
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Post by ichy on Sept 6, 2010 21:22:03 GMT -6
I still have trouble believing that the State of Washington will go through with this. They haven't had an execution in nine years, and I think they've only had a total of two non-volunteers put to death. Then again, I didn't think that Utah would end up carrying out their firing squad execution either.
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Post by wrench on Sept 7, 2010 12:00:03 GMT -6
appeal denied! www.mynw.com/Counting down the hours to execution in Walla Walla A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a death row inmate's request for an emergency stay of his execution. Cal Coburn Brown is only three days from a date with a lethal injection. The 51-year-old has been in this position before. It was only a year ago when his execution was put on hold just eight hours before it was to happen.
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Post by moonlight on Sept 7, 2010 13:10:20 GMT -6
Yaa me too counting hours. I really hope everything goes fine and he gets the juice he needs so badly.
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Post by wrench on Sept 8, 2010 8:45:31 GMT -6
another rejection. next is challenge to scotus for single drug and execution team qualifications. www.mynw.com/category/ap_state/20100831/Federal-judge-denies-appeal-for-death-row-inmate/Superior Court rejects execution stay request SEATTLE (AP) - A King County Superior Court judge has rejected a request to stay Friday's scheduled execution of Cal Coburn Brown. Judge Sharon Armstrong said Tuesday she was not persuaded by a defense argument that Brown is severely mentally ill. Defense lawyer Suzanne Elliott tells The Seattle Times she plans to appeal Armstrong's ruling to the Washington Supreme Court. The Washington state attorney general's office says Brown is also seeking a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court. Brown is scheduled to die for the 1991 torture and murder of 22-year-old Holly Washa, a Burien woman. Brown is challenging the state's new one-drug protocol for lethal injection, as well as the state Department of Corrections' authority to obtain that drug and the qualifications of the execution team.
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Post by SubSurfCPO(ret) on Sept 8, 2010 10:26:40 GMT -6
So get me up to speed - who is left as far as last minute appeals and stays?
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Post by wrench on Sept 8, 2010 13:40:27 GMT -6
it looks like scotus, several motions, no more info.
his attorneys are also said to be going to try to get a stay in the washington state supreme court. no info on the reason.
i'd expect the mental health issue to come up. he was on lithium when in prison in oregon. he claims he was off lithium during ms washa's brutal attack.
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Post by wrench on Sept 8, 2010 17:40:43 GMT -6
Gregoire rejects clemency for Cal Coburn Brown seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theblotter/2012844502_gregoire_will_not_grant_clemen.htmlGov. Chris Gregoire on Wednesday rejected a clemency request from condemned killer Cal Coburn Brown. Brown, 52, appealed to the governor, asking her to commute his death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown is scheduled to be executed shortly after midnight on Friday for the King County crime. "After this careful review, and after contemplating the grave importance of this matter, I have determined I will not intervene," Gregoire wrote in a news release. "I find no basis to change the death sentence that was imposed by the jury in accordance with the laws of our state." Gregoire's announcement is the latest setback Brown, whose appeals for a stay have been turned down by a King County Superior Court judge, a federal judge and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On Tuesday, King County Superior Court Judge Sharon Armstrong dismissed an argument by Brown's defense team the man's severe mental illness should have kept him off death row all along. There are appeals still pending before the Washington Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. This is the second time in a year that Brown has come within hours of execution. Last year, a federal judge issued a stay just eight hours before he was scheduled to die for the May 24, 1991, kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of Holly Washa, a 21-year-old Burien woman he abducted from a Pacific Highway South parking lot. Court papers claim he put Washa in the trunk of a car, drove to the airport, then cut her throat just before he caught a plane out of town. Brown has never disputed that he tortured and murdered Washa, but he has claimed the sex he had with her was consensual.
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Post by wrench on Sept 9, 2010 9:01:10 GMT -6
WA state supreme court denies 8 to 1. the only avenue left is SCOTUS. it looks like this is going to happen tonight. www.mynw.com/category/local_news_articles/20100908/Court-denies-stay-for-death-row-inmate/The Washington state Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution for death row inmate Cal Coburn Brown. He's scheduled to be executed early Friday. The court denied the stay 8-1 on Wednesday. Justice Richard Sanders dissented, writing that Brown had raised constitutional issues about the basis of his sentence and that the court cannot act in haste while ensuring justice is done. In a state where executions are uncommon, Cal Coburn Brown's death on Friday will be the first time since 2001 that Washington has carried out its capital punishment. Barring a last-minute stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court, the 52-year-old will become the first death row inmate in the state to die by a one-drug method of execution, a recently changed protocol from a three-drug cocktail. Washington is the second state in the nation, after Ohio, to change to the one-drug method. Gov. Chris Gregoire on Wednesday denied clemency for Brown, who had petitioned for his death sentence to be commuted to a life sentence. The governor said she found "no basis to change the death sentence that was imposed by the jury in accordance with the laws of our state." Eighteen months ago, Brown, who was convicted in the 1991 murder of a Seattle-area woman, was just hours from a lethal injection when he received a stay of execution. The state Supreme Court granted the stay because another inmate had been granted a hearing on the constitutionality of the state's lethal injection policy. Since then, Washington's execution method has changed, as has the four-member team assigned to carry out the injection. The previous team resigned, fearing its members might be identified after several inmates challenged the state's previous method and questioned the qualifications of the execution team. The one-drug protocol is more simplistic, and the new team has the medical expertise needed to carry out the execution, said Dan Pacholke, acting director of the prisons division for the Department of Corrections. "I don't have any reservations at all about our readiness or the competency of the folks who are going to handle the medical aspect of this procedure," he said. "It's the most severe criminal justice sanction that's handed down by the courts. It's supported by the state of Washington, and to ask state workers to carry out this task is significant. I don't think that weight is lost on anybody." Brown confessed to the rape and murder of 22-year-old Holly Washa, of Burien, Wash., during an interrogation by California authorities over an alleged attack of a woman in that state. He surprised investigators with his reply to a routine question: Anything else you want to tell us? Brown was near the airport in Seattle when he directed Washa to a problem with her car's rear tire. When Washa opened her door, he carjacked her at knifepoint, then robbed, raped and tortured Washa before killing her. After confessing to California investigators, he directed police to Washa's battered body in the trunk of a car. Prosecutors pointed to the case as one befitting the death penalty, while opponents argue for leniency because of his mental condition. According to court documents, Brown suffers from bipolar disorder, but was not being treated at the time of the murder. Since 1994, prison staff have prescribed medication to control the condition. During sentencing, Brown's defense attorneys argued the murder may have been the result of an untreated mental disorder. Judith Kay, an ethics professor at the University of Puget Sound who corresponds with Washington's death row inmates, last visited Brown on Aug. 25. Kay said Brown has always taken full responsibility for his actions and is remorseful, but she questions why mental illness wasn't a mitigating factor in his sentence. "When he's in the grip of this mental illness, it doesn't excuse what he did, and it doesn't diminish his responsibility, but should he have received a lesser sentence that would protect society and punish him but not take his life?" she asked. King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg dismissed that argument. "He does not suffer from an extreme mental disturbance. He has been diagnosed with a fairly common mental health issue, but it does not excuse what he did," he said. "It does not explain, nor does it excuse, rape, torture, murder." Brown had asked the governor to consider his diagnosis in his clemency request, but Gregoire said Wednesday that the jury considered whether Brown knew right from wrong and was in control of his conduct at the time of the murder. Brown's current attorneys did not respond to a request for comment. The Washa family declined to comment. Brown, of San Jose, Calif., has a history of violent crime. He was convicted of assaults in California and Oregon, and served seven years in an Oregon prison. Brown was released on parole just two months before Washa's death and the alleged attack on the woman in California in 1991.
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Post by wrench on Sept 9, 2010 13:14:44 GMT -6
SCOTUS DENIES
U.S. Supreme Court rejects stay of execution for Brown
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Cal Coburn Brown's request for a stay of execution, the Washington state Attorney General's Office said Thursday morning.
Brown is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection just after midnight Friday for the May 1991 rape and murder of Holly Washa, 21, in SeaTac.
Brown's appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court had alleged the U.S. District Court and the 9th U.S Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying his motion for a stay in his challenge to Washington state's lethal-injection protocols. The high court rejected the request without comment.
Another appeal, challenging a King County Superior Court judge's recent ruling that Brown's "mood disorder" is not severe enough to keep him off death row, is also pending before the state Supreme Court.
On Wednesday, Gov. Chris Gregoire rejected Brown's appeal for clemency based on his mental illness. In Washington state, trial juries may consider a mental disorder as a reason to grant leniency in capital cases.
Gregoire said in a news release that the King County jury that heard Brown's case in 1993 "heard this evidence and considered whether he knew right from wrong and was in control of his conduct at the time of the murder of Holly Washa.
"The torture, rape and murder of Holly Washa were horrible acts of brutality," Gregoire said in the news release. "My sympathies and prayers are with Holly Washa's family, who has suffered immeasurably from Cal Brown's actions. No one can do anything to take away or lessen their pain. As a mother, my heart goes out to them for their tragic loss. I pray for Holly Washa. I will also pray for Cal Brown."
Jeff Ellis, one of Brown's defense lawyers, said he was "deeply disappointed" with Wednesday's developments.
"I remain optimistic that the Washington State Supreme Court or a federal court after that will pause and say that a hearing should happen," Ellis said.
"We're dealing with hours now," he said Wednesday. "There's a tremendous amount of pressure."
Outside the Washington State Penitentiary, state Department of Corrections officers blocked each entrance and lined the cyclone fence along the perimeter of the facility on Thursday morning. Officers from across the state were called in to beef up security in the hours leading up to the state's first execution in more than 19 years, said Maria Peterson, DOC spokeswoman.
Brown, 52, was convicted of raping, torturing and killing Washa, 21, in a SeaTac hotel in 1991, before leaving her body in the trunk of her car.
He fled to California and was arrested after being accused of another brutal sexual assault.
Brown has never disputed that he tortured and murdered Washa, but he has claimed the sex he had with her was consensual.
During a hearing before the state Clemency and Pardons Board on March 12, 2009 — just hours before his scheduled execution — Brown apologized for Washa's slaying.
The board was split 2-2 on whether Brown should be executed.
About an hour later, the state Supreme Court stayed Brown's execution based on his appeal that the state's method of execution constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
No executions have occurred since then, while the courts heard similar challenges to the state's long-standing three-drug method of lethal injection — an anesthetic, a paralyzer and a heart-attack-inducing drug.
Defense attorneys argued that the procedure was unconstitutionally painful and prone to mistakes.
In July, the state Supreme Court lifted the stay after the state Department of Corrections switched to a one-drug method of execution, making the initial argument moot. Washington and Ohio are the only states that use the one-drug method.
The state's last execution was in August 2001, when James Elledge, 58, died by lethal injection for the 1998 slaying of Eloise Jane Fitzner, 47, at a Lynnwood church.
In recent months, Washa's family has remained quiet and has declined media interviews until after the execution.
Last year, family members drove from Nebraska to Walla Walla for Brown's execution only to have the stay issued shortly after they arrived. Washa's father, brother and two sisters will fly to Walla Walla on Thursday, where they will join King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg as witnesses to the scheduled execution.
"They're very close knit. They really treat Holly as though she's still there with them as a member of the family," Satterberg said. "They feel there is an empty hole in their family. They want to be at the execution not because they want to see him die but they want to be there for Holly."
During Brown's clemency hearing last year, Becky Washa, the slain woman's youngest sister, said their family looked at the execution as "an opportunity for this to be brought to a conclusion."
"We don't have to ever be concerned that he could escape from prison or that any other person would have to go through what my sister went through," she said.
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Post by dude on Sept 9, 2010 16:19:35 GMT -6
So, this will be WA's first attempt at doing it Ohio-style, right?
Good to see an uncommon player making DP news.
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Post by ichy on Sept 9, 2010 16:44:54 GMT -6
So, this will be WA's first attempt at doing it Ohio-style, right? That is correct. This is WA's first execution since 2001, and I believe only their third involuntary execution.
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Post by wrench on Sept 9, 2010 17:39:19 GMT -6
he's had his last meal: Condemned killer's last meal: Pizza, apple pie and root beer seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012850625_brown10m.htmlWALLA WALLA — With just hours to go before his scheduled execution, condemned killer Cal Coburn Brown has requested a last meal of pizza, apple pie and root beer. Belinda Stewart, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections, said Brown had spoken with his family and attorneys by phone Thursday. Earlier, the state and U.S. Supreme Courts had rejected Brown's latest efforts to halt his execution, scheduled for just after midnight Friday. "His mood has been characterized by the fact he knows what's going to happen tonight," she told reporters outside the Washington State Penitentiary. "He's resigned to that." In addition to a special prison meal, Brown also spent an extended period in the prison yard, Stewart said. He remained in his solitary cell on Thursday afternoon. He will later be moved to a different cell closer to the execution chamber, Stewart said. The state Supreme Court denied Brown's latest appeal on Thursday afternoon. Brown had claimed he's incompetent because of mental illness. "Given that the Washington Supreme Court has never decided what the competence standards should be, it's very concerning they didn't pause" the execution, said Jeff Ellis, one of Brown's lawyers. "It's nothing we can fix later." Brown has also asked the U.S. District Court in Seattle to review the mental illness claim. Brown, 52, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection for the May 1991 rape and murder of Holly Washa, 21, in SeaTac. Speaking outside the penitentiary on Thursday, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg spoke to reporters about Washa. "So many of the details surround the inmate, the offender," he said. "We want to remember Holly Washa in her prime. She was a young woman in her 20s when she was kidnapped and raped by Cal Brown. He is here tonight because he has earned his trip to death row." Four members of Washa's family have flown to Walla Walla from Nebraska to witness the execution. Satterberg said the execution will mark the end of their commitment to follow the legal process and see Holly's killer punished. "In their eyes there is no question that Cal Brown deserves to die for what he did." he said. Washa's family plans to speak to the media after the execution. Brown's appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court had alleged the U.S. District Court and the 9th U.S Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying his motion for a stay in his challenge to Washington state's lethal-injection protocols. On Wednesday, Gov. Chris Gregoire rejected Brown's appeal for clemency based on his mental illness. In Washington state, trial juries may consider a mental disorder as a reason to grant leniency in capital cases. Gregoire said in a news release that the King County jury that heard Brown's case in 1993 "heard this evidence and considered whether he knew right from wrong and was in control of his conduct at the time of the murder of Holly Washa. "The torture, rape and murder of Holly Washa were horrible acts of brutality," Gregoire said in the news release. "My sympathies and prayers are with Holly Washa's family, who has suffered immeasurably from Cal Brown's actions. No one can do anything to take away or lessen their pain. As a mother, my heart goes out to them for their tragic loss. I pray for Holly Washa. I will also pray for Cal Brown." Outside the Washington State Penitentiary, state Department of Corrections officers blocked each entrance and lined the cyclone fence along the perimeter of the facility on Thursday morning. Officers from across the state were called in to beef up security in the hours leading up to the execution, said Maria Peterson, DOC spokeswoman. During a hearing before the state Clemency and Pardons Board on March 12, 2009 — just hours before his scheduled execution — Brown apologized for Washa's slaying. The board was split 2-2 on whether Brown should be executed. About an hour later, the state Supreme Court stayed Brown's execution based on his appeal that the state's method of execution constituted cruel and unusual punishment. No executions have occurred since then, while the courts heard similar challenges to the state's long-standing three-drug method of lethal injection — an anesthetic, a paralyzer and a heart-attack-inducing drug. Defense attorneys argued that the procedure was unconstitutionally painful and prone to mistakes. In July, the state Supreme Court lifted the stay after the state Department of Corrections switched to a one-drug method of execution, making the initial argument moot. Washington and Ohio are the only states that use the one-drug method. Brown would be the first inmate executed in the state by the single-drug method. The state's last execution was in August 2001, when James Elledge, 58, died by lethal injection for the 1998 slaying of Eloise Jane Fitzner, 47, at a Lynnwood church.
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Post by wrench on Sept 9, 2010 17:44:07 GMT -6
So, this will be WA's first attempt at doing it Ohio-style, right? That is correct. This is WA's first execution since 2001, and I believe only their third involuntary execution. first since elledge in 01. volunteers were dodd, elledge and stegastagui. charles campbell went to the gallows fighting.
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Post by forgesfire on Sept 9, 2010 17:52:16 GMT -6
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hA5y1dznmb9vNUSXUkwIOxtmzbsAD9I4LLEO0Washington prepares for 1st execution since 2001 By SHANNON DININNY (AP) – 1 hour ago WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Prison officials are making final preparations for Washington state's first execution since 2001. Convicted murderer Cal Coburn Brown is scheduled to die by lethal injection early Friday. The U.S. Supreme Court and the Washington state Supreme Court both denied appeals to halt the execution Thursday. Brown claims he's incompetent because of mental illness. According to court documents, he suffers from bipolar disorder. He was convicted in the 1991 rape, torture and murder of 21-year-old Holly Washa near Sea-Tac airport. Brown was hours from being executed in March 2009 when he received a last-minute stay over the constitutionality of Washington's lethal injection policy. The state has since changed its execution method from a three-drug cocktail to a one-drug injection.
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Post by rayozz on Sept 9, 2010 19:32:29 GMT -6
Isn't a Friday execution rather unusual?
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Post by socasack on Sept 9, 2010 22:38:49 GMT -6
This guy needs to die. A truly sick individual!
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Post by ichy on Sept 9, 2010 22:40:07 GMT -6
Haven't two other inmates (Darold Stenson and Dwayne Woods) also exhausted their appeals? Any chance they'll be getting dates now that the lethal injection issue in WA has been resolved?
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Post by rayozz on Sept 10, 2010 2:13:55 GMT -6
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Post by spinaltap on Sept 10, 2010 4:29:35 GMT -6
I think he understood it all
now he is dead
say bye
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Post by SubSurfCPO(ret) on Sept 10, 2010 7:24:24 GMT -6
This is the part that always gets me...
"Looking toward the witnesses, he acknowledged the anger of Washa's family, but did not apologize for the slaying."
"I understand your feelings and your hatred for me for the actions I took against your daughter and sister," he said while strapped to a gurney in the execution chamber at the Washington State Penitentiary. "I hope the actions taken tonight give you the closure you seek."
Even at the last moments he can't take responsibility for his actions.
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Post by reapwysow on Sept 10, 2010 7:30:12 GMT -6
This is all that needed to be said.
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Post by whitediamonds on Sept 10, 2010 7:57:27 GMT -6
This is the part that always gets me... "Looking toward the witnesses, he acknowledged the anger of Washa's family, but did not apologize for the slaying."
"I understand your feelings and your hatred for me for the actions I took against your daughter and sister," he said while strapped to a gurney in the execution chamber at the Washington State Penitentiary. "I hope the actions taken tonight give you the closure you seek."Even at the last moments he can't take responsibility for his actions. I thought it was him who chose the closure actions for himself he sought by his actions?
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Post by honeyroastedpeanut on Sept 10, 2010 8:17:01 GMT -6
Can someone enlighten me whether a bipolar disorder really has any impact on your capicity to distinguish between right and wrong and to act accordingly? I thought this is "just" a condition in which highs and lows alter and which might lead to auto-aggressive behaviour and suicide.
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Post by whitediamonds on Sept 10, 2010 8:45:56 GMT -6
Can someone enlighten me whether a bipolar disorder really has any impact on your capicity to distinguish between right and wrong and to act accordingly? I thought this is "just" a condition in which highs and lows alter and which might lead to auto-aggressive behaviour and suicide. Only an opinion, as one who has witnessed close ones, or lived with a bipolar. Bipolar's know right from wrong, the ones I know do in my humble opinion. Yet even if taking meds have I will call episodes, where they know right from wrong but the natural restraints break down. Leaving them open to doing things they normally would not do. When on extreme low end, they are a danger to themselves mostly only harm by proxy the results of what they do to themselves. Not knowing right from wrong, can be in any individual due to other factors not a condition of bipolar. If that person has other things going on besides or w/o being bipolar, that would be a different story, it could be a lethal combination. My view of those around me who are bipolar only... had lots of experience in knowing and dealing with them though, at one time living with two of them up close.
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