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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

First execution of year scheduled

The first execution in Georgia in nearly a year has been scheduled. William Earl Lynd is scheduled to die at 7PM May 6th. Lynd was convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1988. Executions were placed on hold in Georgia, and elsewhere in the country, as the U.S. Supreme Court weighed whether lethal injection violated the Constitution. The high court ruled last week it does not.

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