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| First US execution carried out since botched lethal injection |
| 2014-06-19 |
| [The News (Pak)] The United States on Tuesday carried out its first execution since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma in April, after last minute appeals were denied. Marcus Wellons, 58, convicted of the 1989 kidnapping, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl, was put to death shortly before midnight in the southern state of Georgia, a front man for the prison system said. In a second case, the Supreme Court also rejected appeals and cleared the way for the execution on Wednesday in the state of Missouri of John Winfield, convicted of killing two women. A third execution is also scheduled for 6:00 pm (2200 GMT) Wednesday in the southern state of Florida. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Botched is when you relase a murderer and he killa again or, like in Europe, you relase him a second time and he kills agsin. These enlightened Europeans don't have death peanlty for můrderes: the death penalty is for the woman or child who will have the misforturne to meet the serial killer they release. BTW: Did you ever hear of anti detah penalty activists protesting against executions in say, Iran? |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-06-19 09:37 |
| #2 "Botched" is taking 25 years to accomplish justice. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-19 08:05 |
| #1 He dead. So how was it "botched"? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-06-19 08:03 |