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Clemency Urged in Mississippi Case

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Today's Jackson Clarion-Ledger carries the editorial, "Death penalty: State should spare Dale Bishop."This newspaper has been a longtime supporter of the enforcement of the death penalty in Mississippi. The death penalty exists in this state as the ultimate penalty for the ultimate crimes. But in the case of Death Row inmate Dale Leo Bishop, Mississippi is preparing to extract the ultimate penalty from Bishop when it appears clear that Bishop did not commit the ultimate crime. Bishop, 34, was sentenced to death in 2000 for the kidnapping and slaying of 22-year-old Marcus Gentry of Fulton. Gentry was beaten with an 18-ounce carpenter's framing hammer on a dirt logging road outside Saltillo on Dec. 10, 1998, after an argument. Trial testimony - undisputed trial testimony - indicates that Bishop was not the man swinging the hammer that delivered the fatal blows to victim's head...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 22, 2008 (boomark / email).