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Three Steps Away From Death

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Tim Chitwood's column from the Sunday edition of the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer of Georgia.  LINK In three steps, Georgia kills a man.Carlton Gary will be the 24th to die of lethal injection, says the Department of Corrections, which scheduled his execution for 7 p.m. Dec. 16.That puts him in line behind Mark McClain, executed Oct. 20 for the 1994 murder of an Augusta, Ga., man shot during a robbery. <!-- if(miyahoo.ads[mi_live_or_preview].yahoo.enabled){yld_mgr.place_ad_here("slot_2");} --> McClain died quietly, according to witnesses, so in his case Georgia?s triple death cocktail worked as intended, apparently.But that can be hard to tell, say critics of lethal injection, which replaced electrocution in 2001...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).