NPR: Hometown News: Supremes Halt Execution

Hometown News: Supremes Halt Execution

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In today's New York Times, the D.C.-datelined story of the Supreme Court halting a Mississippi man's execution at the last moment went like this:

Moments before a Mississippi prisoner was scheduled to die by lethal injection, the Supreme Court granted him a stay of execution on Tuesday evening and thus gave a nearly indisputable indication that a majority intends to block all executions until the court decides a lethal injection case from Kentucky next spring.

Back home, in the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger, the story went like this:

"You can't help a fellow whose wife was killed for no damn reason!" Charles Bounds said, his tear-filled eyes glaring at [the corrections commissioner]. "You want to tell me we got a fair shake today?"

Laura Conaway

12:50 PM ET | 10-31-2007 | permalink

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