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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

In celebration of the Death Penalty Information Center’s new weekly email service (click here and put subscribe in the subject box), their look at this week’s scheduled executions: DPIC notes this on the upcoming Terry Lyn Short execution: Terry Lyn Short is scheduled to be executed on June 17 in Oklahoma. He was convicted of causing a fire that killed Ken Yamamoto in 1995. The key witness against Short at trial was a jailhouse informant who testified in return for leniency on charges that he was facing. Defense counsel at trial sought to present testimony of a third inmate in the same cell who was prepared to refute everything that the jailhouse informant had said. However, the trial judge refused to let this witness testify, and his story was never heard...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 15, 2008 (boomark / email).