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An AP Writer's Perspective on an Execution

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That's the title of an essay by AP reporter Greg Bluestein on witnessing the execution of Curtis Osborne in Georgia last week.  It appears via the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.  LINKI've never met Curtis Osborne, had hardly heard his name until the last few months. But we shared a powerful and unsettling bond Wednesday night, one that I'll never forget. His eyes fixed on mine minutes before he took his last breath. I've worked at The Associated Press for three years now and covered more than my share of doom and gloom. But I had never witnessed an execution. When the chance came up to cover Osborne's execution, I didn't think too much about it. I saw it more as a duty than anything else. But there was also something a bit more primal about it...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).