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Bishop asks for clemency, Miss. execution pending

Bishop asks for clemency, Miss. execution pending (Updated: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:05 PM CDT)JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Barring a reprieve from the courts or clemency from the governor, Dale Leo Bishop will be executed Wednesday for participating in the claw hammer beating death of one of his friendsThe execution is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.Bishop's attorneys say his life should be spared because he did not swing the hammer that killed Marcus James Gentry in 1998. Bishop also claims his bipolar disorder prevented him from making a sound decision when he asked for the death penalty in 2000.Bishop acknowledges participating in the attack, but another man, Jessie Johnson, admitted striking the lethal blows...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on July 23, 2008 (boomark / email).