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Ga. Plans First Execution Since Court Ruling

Posted May 5, 08 5:47 PM CDT in Crime & Courts,  US 

(Newser) – A Georgia killer is slated to be the first US inmate to die by lethal injection since the Supreme Court ruled the method constitutional last month, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The state denied William Earl Lynd clemency today and plans to execute him tomorrow for killing his girlfriend and another woman 20 years ago.

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This January 1996 file photo shows the entrance to a lethal injection table at California's San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif.   (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections)
The justices of the Supreme Court pose for a group photograph on Monday, October 31, 2005.   (KRT Photos)
In this November 2005 file photo, the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility is seen through a glass window from the witness room in Lucasville, Ohio.   (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
Alabama's lethal injection chamber at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., is pictured in this Oct. 7, 2002 file photo.   (AP Photo/File)
The Texas death chamber is shown May 19, 2000, in Huntsville, Texas.   (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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