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Georgia killer to those viewing his execution: ‘You can kiss my …’
By myajc.com- Rhonda Cook
Published: 05/17/2017

J.W. Ledford Jr., the 45-year-old murderer who became the first inmate executed in Georgia this year, went to his death defiantly early Wednesday, knocking those who had come to witness his lethal injection.

Ledford was on the gurney, smiling broadly, as witnesses were escorted into the observation area of the death house at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. It had been a long wait. The U.S. Supreme Court took roughly five hours to weigh Ledford’s last-ditch effort to avoid the needle.



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