A Sept. 29 execution date was set today for a man who raped and murdered a Riverside teenager nearly 30 years ago.
Albert Greenwood Brown’s death warrant was signed by Riverside Superior Court Judge Roger A. Luebs. His execution will take place at San Quentin State Prison.
“Justice has been delayed for 30 years since Susan Jordan was murdered,” Chief Assistant District Attorney William Mitchell said. “It’s time we moved forward with this.”
Brown’s attorney’s filed a request for an emergency stay, but it was denied Friday by the California Supreme Court, clearing the way for Luebs to set an execution date.
Brown grabbed 15-year-old Susan Jordan in October 1980, as she walked along Victoria Avenue on her way to Arlington High School in Riverside, and raped and murdered the teenager.
Brown then called the girl’s parents and told them they would never see their daughter alive again and could find her in a particular orange grove.
Brown had been paroled from state prison just four months earlier for the 1977 rape of a 14-year-old girl.
He was convicted of the older girl’s rape and murder in 1982 and sentenced to death.
With the state Supreme Court’s action, all of Brown’s state and federal appeals and habeas corpus issues have been exhausted, District Attorney Rod Pacheco said.
Defense attorney Jan. B Norman argued that the execution should be put off for another month, saying the procedures for lethal injection are under federal review for possible Eighth Amendment violations.
“It’s very likely maybe some of these issues will be resolved,” Norman said.
The judge said he was allowed to set the execution date as soon as 30 days and no later than 60 days after the D.A. filed a request for a death warrant. The execution date he set is the earliest possible by law.
Norman said she will continue to fight for her client’s life by filing a clemency petition. She has only until Sept. 7 to do so.
“The idea of preparing a petition for clemency in eight days is basically impossible,” she said, adding she needed to review old records and interview the defendant and his family.
The judge defended his decision for the relatively early execution date.
“Everybody wants more time,” he said. “At the end of the day, Sept. 29 is a reasonable date.”
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It’s passed his time. This is ridiculous. One would think being convicted of one rape and murder would be enough, but this person has raped and murdered numerous innocent girls.
Susan was my neighbor. A quiet and nice young girl who never bothered anyone and deserved a long and happy life. Without repeating the details, I will say what this man did to her was horrific and ghastly and he should have been put to death years ago. Its disgusting on ewvery level that he is still alive and that our taxes have been paying for him and probably his appeals all these years! It makes me sick to think something that happened when I was in High School is not a closed book for these poor parents-I am 50 years old!
Stop wasting our money on people who are a waste-he is a monster!
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I, as a citizen of the EU, take the gravest exception to Mr. Vale de Almeida making comments on California’s decision to execute a brutal child killer and rapist. I take even greater exception that Mr. Almeida should imply or believe he represents my views and the EU citizenship as a whole. The fact of the matter is that Mr. Almeida represents no-one. The individual countries of the EU each have their own Ambassador and I have seen no word from them on this subject. So who exactly does Mr. Almeida think he represents? I can assure him it is not me and I suspect the majority of the EU’s population would take a similar view. As is often the case with EU politics, more time is given to perceived human rights abuses of such people as criminals than to their victims, who have none of the representation afforded convicted felons, illegal immigrants, terrorists, economic asylum seekers and a host of other undesirables. God bless America and may they, as a sovereign nation, ignore the irrelevant rantings of this unelected, pompous, and overpaid buffoon.
please, please execute this monster!
He has lived long enough!
Enough! He was convicted. There is no doubt about his innocence. Let his sentence be enforced.
He has lived many more years than his victim. What a shame!
Sorry to hear of the loss of the family and the pain they feel. I hope that the victim is able to sense the consequences of his actions. That would be a miserable life to be dealt the death blow, but hope for the family of the victim!
The other details of the case coming to an end seem insignificant than to focus on the family that lost a daughter!
May your day be one with peace!
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