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The first execution outside the south this year: Ohio Kills

By cdw

Ohio today killed Richard Cooey for his role in the murders of Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery.  AP notes “The government has no conscience, only policy. Today, the policy was state-sanctioned murder of Richard Cooey,” said one of the lawyers, Eric Allen. Mr. Cooey’s execution marks the first time this year that a state outside the South has committed an execution.

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on October 14, 2008 (boomark / email).