U.S. Executions Resume After Seven-Month Hiatus (Georgia)

[Hissyspit]

Source: AFP

U.S. executions resume after seven-month hiatus

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Authorities in the US state of Georgia on Tuesday ended a seven-month hiatus on executions in the United States, putting to death convicted murderer William Lynd for killing his girlfriend in 1988. Lynd, 53, became the first person executed in the United States since a death row inmate was put to death in Texas on September 25.

He was executed at 2300 GMT Tuesday at the Jackson state prison in Georgia, a prison spokeswoman said.

The hiatus followed several challenges in the US Supreme Court on the constitutionality of lethal injection, the method used to execute most death penalty inmates.

On April 16 the justices ruled 7-2 that the risk of suffering to those executed by lethal injection did not constitute "cruel and unusual punishment," which is barred under the US Constitution.

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[defendandprotect]

1. ...because we're infallible people with no lessons to be learned . . .

"Beware of those with a strong need to punish"

[Nye Bevan]

2. What he did to his victim was cruel and unusual.....

In the Georgia case, Lynd was convicted of fatally shooting his girlfriend, Virginia "Ginger" Moore, in Berrien County in 1988.

During the trial, prosecutors painted Moore's death as especially agonizing and lengthy.

According to trial testimony, Lynd shot Moore in the face, and she fell unconscious onto a bed. He then went outside to smoke a cigarette. Moore regained consciousness and staggered outside, where she was shot a second time and put into the trunk of her car.

After driving to a nearby farmhouse, Lynd said he heard Moore kicking inside the trunk, according to testimony. He opened the trunk and shot her a third time, this time fatally.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/06/georgia.execution/index.html

I try to oppose the death penalty but scumbags like this make it difficult.

[GaVetRay]

3. Amen

I totally agree with your stand. give the bastard the same
consideration that he gave to her. Perhaps, they should given
him 'half doses' of the execution drugs so he could have
suffered like she did.

[jmowreader]

6. Why bother with execution drugs?

They could have shot the guy four or five times in different places, none fatal, before they put a round between his empty eyes.

[blayne]

4. And as for Texas?

Give us a few days, and we will be back on track as well.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. I feel safer already.

Hope they don't make any (more) mistakes. :sarcasm:

[jmowreader]

7. This is kind of a shocker...

you'd have thought that either Texas or Florida would have had a guy waiting in the bullpen for the Supreme Court to re-approve lethal injection, so they could have appeased the legions of bloodthirsty Repukes who make those two states just SOOOOOOOOOO pleasant to live in...