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  • N.C. inmate hopes he's not 1,000th execution

    11/30/2005 2:39:20 PM PST · by Toddsterpatriot · 28 replies · 594+ views
    Yahoo! News ^ | 11-30-2005 | ESTES THOMPSON
    RALEIGH, N.C. - A killer on North Carolina's death row worried Wednesday about becoming a macabre footnote to history — the 1,000th person executed in the U.S. since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. "I'd hate to be remembered as that," 57-year-old Kenneth Lee Boyd told The Associated Press in a prison interview. "I don't like the idea of being picked as a number." But with no doubt of Boyd's guilt in the shooting deaths of his estranged wife and her father in 1988, it appeared unlikely the courts or Gov. Mike Easley would stop the execution, set for 2...