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Kentucky kills

By cdw

Kentucky tonight killed Marco Chapman. a href=”http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/6126129.html”>The Chronicle notes: In the state’s first execution in nine years, Marco Allen Chapman was given a lethal injection at the Kentucky State Penitentiary. He was pronounced dead at 7:34 p.m. CST. The 37-year-old pleaded guilty in 2004 to killing 7-year-old Chelbi Sharon and 6-year-old Cody Sharon in their northern Kentucky home in an attack that wounded their mother and another child. Chapman asked to be executed and fought for the right to fire his attorneys to clear the way. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry,” Chapman said to witnesses before his execution. His last words were “yes, sir,” when the warden asked him if he was ready to proceed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).