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Article: Georgia killer first to be executed after Supreme Court ruling
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- May 7, 2008
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
05-07-2008
Georgia killer first to be executed after Supreme Court ruling
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 05-07-2008, Wednesday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions
JACKSON, Ga. — A Georgia man who killed his live-in girlfriend was executed Tuesday, the first inmate put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injections.
William Earl Lynd, 53, was pronounced dead at 7:51 p.m., Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Mallie McCord said. It came less than an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected efforts to block it.
The roughly three dozen states ...