Georgia Execution

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied convicted killer, William Earl Lynd's request for clemency. His attorney's immediately filed an appeal with the Georgia State Supreme Court seeking to stay his execution.
If the court denies his request he is scheduled to die by lethal injection tomorrow night at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. He will be the first person put to death since the U.S. Supreme court decided that lethal injection does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
Kentucky inmates challenged the lethal injection protocol several months ago. Many states, including Georgia, delayed scheduled executions. Georgia uses the same three drug combination as Kentucky.
In 1988 Lynd was sentenced to death for killing his girlfriend, Virginia Moore. He will be the 18th inmate in Georgia put to death by lethal injection. The state currently has 109 men and 1 woman

on death row.