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06/29/2011

Roy Willard Blankenship was executed in Georgia on June 23, 2011

56-year old Roy Willard Blankenship was put to death by lethal injection Thursday night at the state prison in Jackson after state and federal courts turned down his appeals. He was the first person put to death in Georgia using the sedative pentobarbital as part of the three-drug execution combination, and his lawyers claimed the drug was unsafe and unreliable. State and federal courts rejected their appeals. The course of the execution suggests the appeals were fully justified. May he rest in peace.

Posted at 06:36 AM in Current Affairs, Death Penalty |

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