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Should Murder Accomplices Face Execution?

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That's the title of John Gramlich's report at Stateline.  LINKAn 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. 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. 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.  In Texas, death-row inmate Jeffery Wood this month also could be executed for a murder he did not commit...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 13, 2008 (boomark / email).