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Should murder accomplices face execution?

By "Persian Cowboy"

By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff WriterAn execution last month in Mississippi and another scheduled for this month in Texas have reignited a debate over whether the death penalty should be given to those who participate in killings ? but do not personally carry them out. Dale Bishop was executed July 23 in Mississippi for his role in the 1998 murder of an acquaintance who was beaten to death with a claw hammer along a rural road near Tupelo. But Bishop did not strike the fatal blows. According to uncontested trial testimony, Bishop held and kicked the victim while another man, Jessie Johnson, fatally attacked him with the hammer. Johnson is serving a life sentence without parole. Photo courtesy of Gloria Rubac, Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement Demonstrators outside the Alamo in San Antonio protest the scheduled Aug...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on August 13, 2008 (boomark / email).