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Georgia completes (eventful?) execution of suicidal triple murderer

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this AP story, after some more delays and difficulties, Georgia was finally able to complete the execution of a triple murderer late last night.  Here are some of the details: A Georgia prisoner who tried to kill himself last week by slashing his arms and throat with a razor blade was executed Monday night amid heightened security for the 1998 murders of a trucking company owner and his two children. Brandon Joseph Rhode, 31, was put to death by injection at the state prison in Jackson. He was pronounced dead at 10:16 p.m. Rhode declined to speak any last words or have a final prayer.... Rhode's execution had been set for 7 p.m. but was pushed back several hours as corrections officials waited for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on his plea for a stay of execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).