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Eugene

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Tue Oct-16-07 11:17 AM
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Nevada man in 11th hour reprieve

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 10:41 GMT 11:41 UK

Nevada man in 11th hour reprieve

The Nevada Supreme Court has postponed the execution
of a murderer on the day he was due to die by lethal
injection.

The execution was suspended pending a decision from
the US Supreme Court on the constitutionality of
lethal injections.

William Castillo, 34, was sentenced to death as
punishment for the murder of an 86-year-old woman
in 1995.

If the Supreme Court decides against lethal injections
then the method could be outlawed throughout the
country.

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Tue Oct-16-07 12:05 PM
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1. I always thought what seperated us from the jungle was this

notion that we do not accept an eye for an eye mentality. The death penaltity does not discourage murder.

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