Via the Raleigh News and Observer (sickening)
A federal judge has ordered North Carolina prison officials to make sure a death row inmate is unconscious and unable to feel pain during his execution — a requirement that has halted executions elsewhere.
U.S. District Judge Malcolm J. Howard wants prison officials to tell him by noon Wednesday how they will comply with his order, issued Friday. It requires the presence of medically trained personnel to ensure that Willie Brown Jr. is unconscious during his execution, scheduled for April 21.
You’re sh*ttin’ me, right? Sickening.
Brown, 61, was sentenced to death for the 1983 murder of Vallerie Ann Roberson Dixon, a convenience store clerk in Williamston. Brown had robbed the Zip Mart early one March morning, made off with $90 and kidnapped Dixon. He took her to a logging road, made her lie down in the dirt and shot her six times.
He should feel the same pain she did.
