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Georgia Execution

By Steve Hall

"Georgia executes inmate who had attempted suicide," is the title of Greg Bluestein's report for AP, via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A Georgia death row inmate 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. He was convicted in 2000 of killing Steven Moss, 37, his 11-year-old son Bryan and 15-year-old daughter Kristin during a burglary of their Jones County home in central Georgia...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).