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In Alabama - The Holly Wood Case

By Steve Hall

The Daily Beast carries an in-depth article, "Alabama's Shameful Execution," written by Brendan Kirby.  Here's the beginning of this compelling must-read:He's poor, mentally disabled, and his newbie lawyer botched his sentencing. But at 6 p.m. EST today, this convicted killer will be executed. Brendan Kirby on death row's special-needs inmate.This was never a whodunit.Holly Wood, the incongruously named 50-year-old African-American man from backwoods Alabama, didn?t deny what he had done. The evidence was too overwhelming, and his lawyers concluded early on that an acquittal was highly unlikely. Wood?s 34-year-old former girlfriend, Ruby Lois Gosha, had been shot in the head on September 1, 1993. Her corpse was found in her bed at home...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 09, 2010 (boomark / email).