Lawyers for convicted killer William Earl Lynd will ask the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles today to spare Lynd’s life. He is scheduled to be executed tomorrow night. Lynd has been in prison almost two decades, serving time for the killing of his girlfriend three days before Christmas in 1988. Lynd could become the first condemned prisoner in the country to die by lethal injection since September--that’s when the U.S . Supreme Court considered arguments that challenged lethal injection in a Kentucky case.
