The Death Penalty May Resume on Tuesday
The nation's first inmate to be put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court held that lethal injection is constitutional may be convicted Georgia killer William Earl Lynd.
On Monday, the five-member Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Lynd's clemency bid, after hearing from defense lawyers who argued that the medical evidence presented at his 1990 trial was flawed and that the jury that sentenced him to death never learned of a possible mitigating factor (he had been sexually molested by neighbors at age 8).
Lynd, 53, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday at 7 p.m., unless the Georgia Supreme Court grants his request to stay the execution. Lynd was sentenced to death for shooting his live-in girlfriend, Ginger Moore, three times in the face at their Berrien County home in 1988.
Lynd's execution would be the first since the U.S. Supreme Court last month upheld Kentucky's lethal injection protocol, clearing the way for executions to resume in the roughly three dozen states that use that method.
Reader Comments
I think it was right of him to be executed. I feel for his family.. but the victim's family needs closure too.. why should Lynd get to see his family and friends in prison when his girlfriend's family never gets to see her again, and she did nothing wrong... an eye for an eye is the way to go
they should've shot him
And that's all I'll say about that
Just as you stated Wolfi,..."We don't even hav'em-only some bad Guys.".... When you outlaw guns, only 'Outlaws' will have guns.
You also said, "On most answers I see how the perverted System of Capital Punishment works". If you see it working, then why waste space criticizing it?
Finally, "An eye for an eye"...helps everyone else to see!...what they cannot get away with!
To the non Victims whom I called Bastards here
On most answers I see how the perverted System of Capital Punishment works. It´s not courageous having a gun and use it, its brave not to use it.
Like Mahatma Ghandi said: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
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