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Witness to an Execution

By Steve Hall

"Bishop Reflects on Death Penalty Following Execution," is written by Dave Gossett for the Intelligencer of Wheeling, West Virginia.It wasn't easy for Bishop R. Daniel Conlon to watch Michael Beuke lie strapped down on the gurney in the Lucasville death chamber last week."I was feeling a great sadness. A sadness for the tragic loss of life 27 years ago and the loss of life that day," said Conlon, bishop of the Steubenville Catholic Diocese.Beuke was executed Thursday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility at Lucasville for the 1983 murder of Robert Craig and the shooting of two other men during a three-week string of shootings in the Cincinnati area. He was labeled by the news media at the time as the "homicidal hitchhiker" after receiving rides from his three victims...continue to full post

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