The Associated Press: Three decades on, Calif. family awaits execution

The Associated Press: Three decades on, Calif. family awaits execution: "Albert Greenwood Brown was convicted in 1982 for Susan's murder and sentenced to death.
Though Susan's killing on Oct. 28, 1980, sparked a flurry of media attention in Riverside, a sprawling inland city about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, much of the publicity around the case has focused on Brown and his exhaustive legal maneuvers to avoid the death penalty.
But a series of letters and messages her relatives recently sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pleading with him not to grant clemency provide a glimpse into the family's anguish. Susan's younger brother James Jordan, who was 7 at the time, described how he was standing next to his mother when Brown called.
'I remember her pleading with him and the look of terror on her face,' James Jordan wrote.
Susan's mother and two of her three siblings have written to Schwarzenegger expressing anger over the length of the process.
After decades of appeals and reversals, the courts ultimately upheld Brown's death sentence and he was scheduled for execution Wednesday, though it was pushed back until Thursday to allow his defense team time to file more motions.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel said Tuesday that he halted the Thursday execution because he didn't have enough time 'to render a reasoned decision and permit adequate appellate review.'"