thursday at 9:00 p.m. but one of the drugs used in the lethal injection process has an expiration date of friday meaning it could no longer be used what is more the company that makes the drugs said it is having production problems and can t delive any new shipments until early next year. debra has been sorting this all out and live at san quentin with details. reporter: the jailers here say the prison stands ready for that new execution time, thursday at 9 but with the use by date looming on those deadly drugs, it is a short window of time and there are many players still in the mix. albert brown raped a teenage girl almost 0 years ago using 30 years ago using her own shoe laces to strangle her his fate rests with the legal system no sooner had he lost in marin superior court today. mr. brown cannot prove he will suffer pain if executed under the current regulations. reporter: than his advocates appealed higher federal courts being asked to step in too. almost 30,0
reports are supposed to be confidential documents to help judges make decisions about sentencing. the judge did say he will allow confessions he made to police about levy. testimony from a spanish- speaking officer convinced the judge that the defendant who does not speak english well, had been read his miranda rights in spanish. as for the stories that he told, government attorney amanda hanes acknowledged that they are fantastical and inconsistent, but she says when he talks about them he never talks about stripping naked and says he was drinking and couldn t help himself. chandra levy s mother wants to be present here, even if she is doled as a witness the judge told her lawyer today he is inclined to let her be here as much as legally possible, and he think that s going to be for most or all of this trial. karen gray houston tonight. three people are dead after a fire in northern virginia home. one of them died while saving three children. it happened in fairfax county.