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Georgia Stay Remain in Place

By Steve Hall

"Triple murderer's execution stayed until Monday," is the title of Rhonda Cook and Bill Rankin's late post at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Capital punishment opponents and attorneys for a man scheduled to die next week are pushing their arguments that he is not competent to be executed by distributing photos of the gashes Brandon Rhode cut in his own neck and arms just hours before he was initially set to be put to death. "Executing Rhode on the heels of his attempted suicide is especially cruel and inhuman,? Laura Moye, director of the Death Penalty Abolition Campaign, said in a written statement Friday.  ?To strap Rhode?s stitched up body to a gurney, fresh with razor cuts to his wrists and neck, is particularly grizzly...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 24, 2010 (boomark / email).