Deadly milepost to be set in N.C.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
By Chris Fitzsimon
1,000th execution since ‘76 on Friday
Andrea Weigl, Staff Writer
North Carolina is set to administer the 1,000th execution in the United States since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty almost 20 years ago.
On Tuesday evening, Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner granted clemency to a killer who was scheduled to be executed today. That means North Carolina’s execution of Kenneth Lee Boyd, if it proceeds, will be the milestone. Boyd is set to die by lethal injection at 2 a.m. Friday at Raleigh’s Central Prison.
Boyd, 57, was convicted in the 1988 shootings of his estranged wife, Julie Boyd, and her father, Thomas Dillard Curry, in their Rockingham County home. Prosecutors say Boyd shot his wife nine times in front of two of his children, pausing to reload. (more…)
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