Posted on 03/10/2009 11:08:27 PM PDT by Birch T. Barlow
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man was executed Tuesday for stabbing a neighbor to death who had spurned his sexual advances.
Robert Newland, 65, was put to death by lethal injection at the state prison at Jackson and was pronounced dead at 7:35 p.m. by authorities. He was the first person executed in Georgia this year.
Newland was convicted in 1987 and sentenced to death for the slaying of Carol Sanders Beatty, a 27-year-old former state and national amateur diving champion.
Authorities say Newland went to the woman's duplex on St. Simons Island in May 1986 after a drinking binge and tried to kiss her. They say he drew a knife and stabbed her repeatedly after she refused his advances.
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Texas man executed for double slaying By MICHAEL GRACZYK – 6 hours ago
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has executed a Fort Worth man convicted of opening fire with an assault rifle to gun down a woman and a friend after stalking her to collect a debt.
Thirty-four-year-old James Edward Martinez was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. Tuesday.
He was condemned for the 2000 fatal shootings of Sandra Walton, 29, whom he dated briefly, and Michael Humphreys, 19, a friend of the woman, outside her Fort Worth apartment complex.
Martinez was the 11th Texas inmate executed this year and the first of two set to die on consecutive nights this week.
One of the two people in this horrid scene represents America. The other...
Why is this news? Oh yes, the AP wants us to feel bad about the criminals and our death penalty system.
Twenty-two years of enriching attorneys.
What took ‘em so long? In TX we git ‘er done in only 8 years.
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