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Execution to be first since SJC ruling
By CBS News
Published: 05/05/2008

GEORGIA - A Georgia board Monday denied condemned killer William Earl Lynd's clemency bid, paving the way for him to likely become the nation's first inmate put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court held that lethal injection is constitutional.

Lynd still had an appeal pending before the Georgia Supreme Court seeking to stay his execution, which was scheduled for Tuesday at 7 p.m. It was unclear when the state's top court would act on that request. Read more.

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