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Georgia conducts its second post-Baze lethal injection (with a hiccup)

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this AP report, a "man who claimed his attorney was a racist who put up a flimsy defense was executed Wednesday for murdering two people, Georgia's second execution within a month."  Here are more details:Curtis Osborne, 37, was executed at 9:05 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson.... Osborne's execution was delayed for about two hours because the U.S. Supreme Court was considering his final appeal and then prison officials could not find a vein. While the lethal cocktail of drugs was administered, Osborne's eyes opened at one point and he took a deep breath.  His eyes then closed again. Osborne, who is black, was sentenced to death for the August 1990 fatal shootings of Linda Lisa Seaborne and Arthur Jones...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 05, 2008 (boomark / email).