Despite increasing Church opposition to the death penalty and UN calls for a global moratorium on its use, a wave of executions has been scheduled in the U.S. in the wake of the Supreme Court’s approval of a widely used lethal injection method of execution. Read the story.
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In addition to the article, this news appeared at night: …”William Earl Lynd was pronounced dead at 7:51 p.m. EDT, May 6, Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Mallie McCord told The Associated Press. It came less than an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected efforts to block it…” You can read more from e.g. :
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=4796165