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| CA Still Waiting For Death Penalty Verdict |
| By latimes.com |
| Published: 09/01/2010 |
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Executions in California cannot resume "unless and until" the court that issued a permanent injunction on lethal injections in 2007 lifts it, a judge ruled Tuesday. Marin County Superior Court Judge Verna Adams issued the reminder that the court order remains in force a day after a Riverside County judge set an execution date of Sept. 29 for death row inmate Albert Greenwood Brown, who raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl in 1980. Adams' ruling was made at a hearing in the cases of two other death row prisoners, Michael Morales of Stockton and Mitchell Sims of Los Angeles. Morales, Sims and Brown are among the few death row prisoners who have exhausted all appeals and are eligible for execution once the practice resumes. There are 706 condemned inmates in California, where the average time from sentencing to execution now runs at least 25 years. Read More. |
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