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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: megimoo on May 06, 2008, 07:51:33 PM

Title: Ga. man executed, ending 7-month moratorium," Lord have Mercy on his Soul !"
Post by: megimoo on May 06, 2008, 07:51:33 PM

JACKSON, Ga. - A Georgia man who killed his live-in girlfriend was executed Tuesday, the first inmate put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injections. William Earl Lynd was pronounced dead at 7:51 p.m. EDT, 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. The roughly three dozen states around the country that use lethal injection held off on carrying out any executions for more than seven months while the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed the constitutionality...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_re_us/georgia_execution_19

Title: Re: Ga. man executed, ending 7-month moratorium," Lord have Mercy on his Soul !"
Post by: Baruch Menachem on May 06, 2008, 11:05:39 PM

Lynd, 53, was sentenced to die for kidnapping and shooting his live-in girlfriend, Ginger Moore, three times in the face and head two decades ago. After he buried Moore's body in a shallow grave near a south Georgia farm, authorities said Lynd fled to Ohio, where he shot and killed another woman who had stopped along the side of the road to help him.

Lynd has never denied killing Moore, 26, two days before Christmas in 1988. But his lawyers had sought a last minute reprieve from the courts, arguing that new forensic medical evidence showed he could not have kidnapped her because she was already dead when he stuffed her in the trunk of her car.

You know, I have looked at the criminal system from the bottom, and I have a lot more sympathy for defendants than I did, but this guy.....

Title: Re: Ga. man executed, ending 7-month moratorium," Lord have Mercy on his Soul !"
Post by: rich_t on May 06, 2008, 11:11:19 PM

^This guy wasn't a defendant... He was a convicted felon.

Title: Re: Ga. man executed, ending 7-month moratorium," Lord have Mercy on his Soul !"
Post by: DixieBelle on May 07, 2008, 08:57:07 AM

Let's not forget that this scumbag killed another woman he was never tried for. I posted more about his crimes in the other thread.

Good riddance.

Title: Re: Ga. man executed, ending 7-month moratorium," Lord have Mercy on his Soul !"
Post by: Rebel Yell on May 07, 2008, 09:04:16 AM

Great day to be a Georgian. :cheersmate:
I live about 30 miles from Berrien County, although I don't remember the case.

Title: Re: Ga. man executed, ending 7-month moratorium," Lord have Mercy on his Soul !"
Post by: Chris_ on May 07, 2008, 11:13:11 AM

I hope it hurt.   :fuelfire:

Title: Re: Ga. man executed, ending 7-month moratorium," Lord have Mercy on his Soul !"
Post by: Chris_ on May 07, 2008, 11:42:06 AM

Quote from: lug-nut on May 07, 2008, 11:13:11 AM

I hope it hurt.   :fuelfire:

+1

doc

Title: Re: Ga. man executed, ending 7-month moratorium," Lord have Mercy on his Soul !"
Post by: Uhhuh35 on May 07, 2008, 02:35:44 PM

Let this be a lesson to us all. Don't kill anyone in Georgia, better to do it in California.