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Article: Lawyer of executed Australian urges Canberra to protest death penalty in United States

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December 3, 2005
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AP Worldstream
12-03-2005
Dateline: MELBOURNE, Australia
A lawyer who tried and failed to save an Australian drug trafficker executed by Singapore urged Canberra Saturday to protest the use of the death penalty in the United States.

Julian McMahon was speaking as he arrived back in the southern city of Melbourne, the day after 25-year-old Nguyen Tuong Van was hanged at Singapore's Changi prison despite repeated appeals for clemency from Prime Minister John Howard.

Nguyen went to the gallows the same day that convicted murderer Kenneth Lee Boyd became the 1,000th person put to death in the United States since capital punishment resumed there in 1977.

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