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Attorneys for WA death row inmate file for appeal

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Source: Seattle News
Originally published: Sep 2, 2010 - 2:39 pm

Attorneys for a death row inmate who is scheduled to be executed this month are looking to a federal appeals court for a stay.

Cal Coburn Brown had challenged, among other things, the state's new one-drug system for lethal injection.

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour (KOO'-now-ur) in Seattle denied that appeal earlier this week. But state attorneys say Brown's lawyers have filed a notice of appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Brown's attorney, Suzanne Lee Elliot, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

Brown is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Sept. 10 for the 1991 torture and murder of 22-year-old Holly Washa, a Burien woman.

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