SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Sept. 22 (UPI) -- California prison officials say they are proceeding with plans to execute a man despite legal wrangling over the lethal injection protocol to be used.
Convicted Riverside County killer Albert Greenwood Brown, is to die at 12:01 a.m., Sept. 29 in California's new $853,000 compound inside San Quentin State Prison by lethal injection but it's the manner by which the injection is carried out that is in question, The Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday.
Brown has been allowed to intervene in one of two Superior Court cases in Marin County, claiming the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation still isn't in compliance with California law governing how the agency should have established new death penalty protocols, the Bee said.
Brown is also trying to intervene in another case involving the same issue.
At issue is the legality of a three-drug protocol used by Kentucky and California versus a one-drug lethal injection adopted by Ohio and the state of Washington, the newspaper said.
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