Monday, September 27, 2010

Governor Schwarzenegger Delays California's First Scheduled Execution Since 2006

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered a delay in the scheduled execution of Albert Greenwood Brown. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has now scheduled the execution for 9 o’clock on Thursday night.

The delay adds to a flurry of legal moves in the final days before what would be California’s first execution since January 2006. Brown was sentenced to death for the 1980 rape and murder of 15-year-old Susan Jordan in Riverside County. He’s been on death row for 28 years. Christopher Martinez reports.