Cal Coburn Brown
A federal judge has denied an appeal by Washington death row inmate Cal Coburn Brown, who is scheduled to be executed this month, and state officials continued preparations to carry out his sentence.
Brown was sentenced to the death penalty for the 1991 torture, rape and murder of a 22-year-old Burien woman. He had challenged 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.
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle denied the appeal Tuesday, saying the questions raised by Brown already had been answered by other courts, and that Brown did not argue that he is innocent or that his trial was unfair.
Brown is scheduled to die Sept. 10.
Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna anticipates Brown will continue to seek additional delays in the 9th Circuit or the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP)
