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Article: The death penalty debate: after a seven-month break, executions have resumed in the U.S.--and so has the debate over capital punishment itself.(NATIONAL)
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- New York Times Upfront
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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Two days before Christmas in 1988, William Lynd shot his 26-year-old girlfriend, Ginger Moore, in the face during an argument. He shot her a second time as she clung to life, and then a third time, fatally, as she struggled in the trunk of his car. After burying Moore near a farm in southern Georgia, Lynd, then 33, killed another woman who had stopped along the road to help him.
Twenty years later, on May 6, Lynd was put to death by lethal injection for his crimes. It was the first execution in the United States in seven months, and came just three weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that execution by lethal injection--the most ...