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Executions Scheduled in Alabama, Arizona

By Steve Hall

"Attorneys ask Ala. Supreme Court to stop execution of William Boyd scheduled for Thursday," is the AP report via the Republic.  An alternate version is available from the Birmingham News. Attorneys for a 45-year-old inmate have asked the Alabama Supreme Court to stop his scheduled Thursday execution, in part because the jury recommended that the judge spare the man's life and sentence him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. William Glenn Boyd was convicted of the 1986 shooting deaths of Fred and Evelyn Blackmon in Calhoun County. The Alabama Supreme Court had not ruled by Monday evening on Boyd's request for a stay of execution. Boyd is scheduled to die by lethal injection at Holman Prison in Atmore at 6 p...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 29, 2011 (boomark / email).