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Monday, October 22, 2007

High court delays execution

Today the Georgia Supreme Court granted a stay of execution to a man convicted of killing two people in Spalding County in 1990. Curtis Osborne had been set to die by lethal injection tomorrow. The court said it was granting an indefinite stay to Osborne because the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Last week, the state Supreme Court issued a stay to convicted killer Jack Alderman for the same reason.

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