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Curtis Osborne

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

AP is reporting the State of Georgia has killed Curtis Osborne: A Georgia man who claimed his attorney was a racist who put up a flimsy defense has been executed for killing two people. Curtis Osborne was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9:05 p.m. in the second execution in Georgia in the last month. The 37-year-old’s execution by injection is also the fourth in the U.S. since the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injection in April. Osborne, who is black, was convicted of murdering Linda Lisa Seaborne and Arthur Jones in April 1990. He claimed after he was convicted that his white lawyer referred to him by a racial slur.

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).