Convicted Man from Georgia Executed

By Charlie Brett
14:57, June 5th 2008
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Convicted Man from Georgia Executed

Curtis Osborne, 37, from Georgia, accused of killing 2 people, was executed Wednesday at the Jackson’s state prison.

According to TIME, Osborne was executed by lethal injection at 9.05. He did not want a special last meal, not even a cheeseburger.

Apparently the execution was held back 55 minutes because the U.S. Supreme Court had to make a decision about Osborne’s final appeal. Then, the executioners couldn’t find a vein for the injection. The search took about half an hour.

The man was sentenced to death after being charged with murdering Linda Lisa Seaborne and Arthur Jones, in August 1990. The two of them were found shot in a car about 35 south of Atlanta.

When he got convicted, Osborne, an African American, accused his lawyer Johnny Mostiler of racism, saying that he refused to inform him that the persecutors had offered Osborne a life sentence for a plea.

Prosecutors didn’t agree and Georgia’s Supreme Court refused to stop the execution.

The ex-chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court Norman Fletcher came Monday to ask for leniency but it didn’t serve to anything.

According to TIME, the lethal injection took 14 minutes to kill Osborne.

Sara Totonchi of the Southern Center for Human Rights said the fact that the injection took almost 15 minutes to take effect, proved that these kind of execution has to be stopped.

Osborne was the fourth inmate executed since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injection.



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