California Execution Canceled Because of Expired Lethal Injection Drugs 3.84K Adrian Chen 09/29/10 12:45AM Filed to: executions executions albert Brown jr. California Albert G. Brown Jr., convicted in 1982 of raping and strangling a 15-year-old girl, was scheduled to be executed tomorrow. But a judge canceled his execution today because California's supply of the lethal drug sodium thiopental is about to expire.