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Alabama kills

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

from the wires: Callahan was the first of five inmates set for execution in the first five months of this year. Alabama had no executions in 2008. James Harvey Callahan has been executed for the 1982 kidnapping, rape and murder of an Alabama woman. The 62-year-old Callahan died at 6:24 p.m. Thursday by lethal injection at Alabama’s Holman Prison for the murder of Rebecca Suzanne Howell, a 26-year-old Jacksonville State University student. The execution marks the second execution of 2009 & the last execution in the States during the Presidency of George W. Bush.

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on January 15, 2009 (boomark / email).