As the state’s attorney general, Brown defended the death sentence in appeals and declared that he would uphold the law regardless of how strongly he felt about the death penalty. A federal judge named Jeremy D. Fogel ordered California to pause the death penalty by lethal injection until new facilities and protocols were established. In 2010, after a state court in California lifted a four-year-old statewide moratorium on the death penalty, Albert Greenwood Brown was executed the same day, Brown filed a move to revive the death sentence. The Democratic gubernatorial campaign of Brown, which pledged to “enforce the laws” of California, claimed the issue had nothing to do with the candidacy for governor.
