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The other pending Georgia execution

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Troy Davis and Jack Alderman are both scheduled to be executed in the coming days.  Both cases are seriously flawed, however, only one has garnered serious scrutiny.  From Reprieve. Jack Alderman is the longest serving prisoner on death row in the USA . Sentenced to death in June1975 for the murder of his wife, Jack has been on death row for over 33 years and is scheduled to die by lethal injection on 16th September. John Brown, a neighbour and former colleague of Jack?s, confessed to killing Jack?s wife Barbara Jean and staging an accident. He later said that he and Jack had killed her together and that Jack had promised to pay him for his role in the killing. No other evidence was presented at trial - just one man?s word. Both men were sentenced to death but Brown later pled guilty in return for a prison sentence and was freed after serving 12 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 10, 2008 (boomark / email).