• Albert Greenwood Brown,  Death Penalty

    Albert Greenwood Brown’s Execution Delayed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

    From yesterday evening’s Fresno television station KFSN

    California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued the stay for Albert Greenwood Brown this afternoon and delayed the first California execution in five years.

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an order Monday delaying the execution of a convicted rapist and murderer by one day, postponing what would be the first death sentence carried out in California in nearly five years.

    Schwarzenegger cited procedural reasons for the temporary reprieve, saying that an appeals court decision allowing the execution to be carried out would not take effect until Thursday, a day after the execution was previously scheduled.

    The reprieve ends at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday.

    The execution has now been scheduled for 9 PM Thursday night.

    The governor allowed the stay so that Brown could exhaust his final appeals which would not be decided until Thursday.

    Brown’s attorneys have filed simulataneous appeals to the federal courts and state courts, seeking to block his execution on the grounds that the state improperly adopted its new lethal injection procedures. They allege that execution under the new regulations would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

    The 45-hour reprieve pushes the execution to within hours of the expiration date on the state’s supply of sodium thiopental, one of the drugs used in the lethal injection process.

    The attorney general’s office said Monday that it would recommend not scheduling any more executions after Sept. 30 until the state could secure a fresh supply of the drug, an anesthetic that renders the condemned inmate unconscious before lethal drugs are injected.

    The delay was imposed by Schwarzenegger just hours after Marin County Superior Court Judge Verna Adams refused to block Brown’s execution after he argued in a lawsuit that California’s new death penalty regulations were improperly adopted.

    “Mr. Brown cannot prove that he will suffer pain if he is executed under the current regulations,” Adams said.

    A federal judge ruled similarly on Friday after Brown contended California’s lethal injection process put him at risk of suffering cruel and unusual punishment.

    I mean he has had ONLY, what, almost thirty years!

    Again, I would not hold my breath for this or any California execution soon.

    What a travesty of justice.

  • Barbara Boxer,  Carly Fiorina

    CA-Sen: San Francisco Chronicle Refuses to Endorse Barbara Boxer

    Pat Buchanan on MSNBC talking about Carly Firoina’s latest television ad, “Sir”.

    When a left-wing rag in San Francisco refuses to endorse your candidacy, you know you are in trouble. And, this is what has happened to Senator Barbara Boxer.

    Californians are left with a deeply unsatisfying choice for the U.S. Senate this year. The incumbent, Democrat Barbara Boxer, has failed to distinguish herself during her 18 years in office. There is no reason to believe that another six-year term would bring anything but more of the same uninspired representation.

    But, they did not endorse Carly Fiorina either. But, why would anyone expect this far-left publication to endorse ANY Republican?

    This whole exercise is more of a SLAP at Boxer and California Democrats for an OBVIOUS lack of performance.

  • Day By Day

    Day By Day September 27, 2010 – Theft

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Chris, American voters must be EVER vigilant to protect our right to vote. Many over the years have attempted to GAME the system. Look at the Houston case:

    Two Texas activist groups, Houston Votes and Texans Together Education Fund, were accused Tuesday of an organized voter fraud campaign by Harris County Voter Registrar Leo Vasquez, who likened the groups to the now-discredited ACORN.

    “The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name Houston Votes,” Vasquez said at a 2 p.m. press conference at his office, where he also released copies of applications in some of the most egregious cases.

    Houston Votes is the get-out-the-vote arm of the Texans Together Education Fund.

    “Evidence shows that the Houston Votes and Texans Together organization are conspiring on a pattern of falsification of government documents, supporting perjury in a deliberate effort to overburden our processing system,” he said.

    Vasquez said he is turning evidence over to the Secretary of State’s office and the Harris County District Attorney’s office for further action. He called into question more than 5,000 voter registration applications.

    Vasquez’ office announcement was based in part on research by a conservative-leaning citizens’ group, the King Street Patriots, which had presented his staff with documentation of questionable voter registrations, a leader of the Patriots group said.

    And….. I am looking forward to receiving my Day By Day Goodies.

    Thanks Chris!

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