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Georgia AP's Shannon McCaffrey writes, "Georgia moves quickly to resume executions," via the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.After a seven-month nationwide halt on executions while the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of lethal injections, Georgia seems eager to make up for lost time. The state became the nation's first to hold an execution after the court upheld the injections, and is now scheduled to hold another one Wednesday. The execution scheduled for next week could have been the state's third in a month, but what would have been the second one in May was canceled when an inmate's death sentence was commuted. Meanwhile, only two other states - Mississippi and Virginia - have put inmates to death. That's about to change...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).