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email edition wrap-up

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This week’s “email edition” is now available. From the introduction: The news of the week is best themed “choosing life.” The Georgia Pardons and Parole Board commuted Samuel Crowe?s death sentence to life without parole briefly before his scheduled execution last week. “After careful and exhaustive consideration of the request, the board voted to grant clemency.” The Board heard testimony from several people who knew Crowe, including pastors and a former corrections officer, who said, “I felt like if they released him that morning he would never get in any more trouble and he could make a contribution to society,? and called him a ?peacemaker? amongst prison inmates. Crowe would have been “the second inmate to be put to death in Georgia in 16 days and the third in the country since a de facto moratorium on executions was lifted in April, when the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).