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Article: Capital-punishment canards. (fair comment).
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- March 4, 2003
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In March 1979, a Graterford (Pa.) prison guard was murdered brutally by an inmate. The inmate--at the time he murdered the guard-already was serving a life sentence for the triple murder of two infants and an elderly woman.
In 1994, an inmate who already was serving two life sentences in the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center was sentenced to three more after he was convicted of stabbing three prison guards.
In 1995, two death-row inmates at the Florida State Prison in Starke were killed by their fellow inmates.
In 1999, a Beeville (Texas) prison guard was killed by an inmate already serving a sentence for murder.
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