[Straits Times] WASHINGTON state executed its first prisoner in nine years early on Friday, killing by lethal injection a 16-year death row inmate who raped, tortured and murdered a woman in the Seattle area.
Cal Coburn Brown, 52, died at 12:56 am (1956 GMT, 3:59 am S'pore time), after a four-member team injected a lethal one-drug cocktail in the execution chamber of the Washington State Penitentiary as the father, brother and two sisters of his victim watched.
Brown carjacked Holly Washa, 21, in 1991 near Seattle's Sea-Tac airport, robbing, raping and torturing her over a 36-hour period, and then strangling and stabbing her.
Brown protested sentencing disparities, saying that criminals who had killed many more people were serving life sentences while he received a death sentence. |