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Lethal landmark for America's death penalty
(Filed: 29/11/2005)
Tomorrow will mark the 1,000th execution since 1977, writes Harry Mount in New York
The modern era of capital punishment reaches a macabre milestone tomorrow with America's 1,000th execution since it reintroduced the death penalty in the 1970s.
Barring a miraculous last minute pardon, Robin Lovitt, 41, will be executed tomorrow for the crime of fatally stabbing a man with scissors in a Virginia pool hall robbery in 1998.
Were it not for the landmark it represents, Lovitt's death would be as unremarkable as that of those condemned to death before him - or even the murder of his victim.
Over the past 28 years the United States has on average executed one person every 10 days.
And the conveyor belt is so efficient that reports of executions are hidden inside the local papers.
Indeed the condemned criminal's choice of menu for his last meal inspires as much interest as the method with which the sentence is carried out.
More ... http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/29/wdeath29.xml
(Filed: 29/11/2005)
Tomorrow will mark the 1,000th execution since 1977, writes Harry Mount in New York
The modern era of capital punishment reaches a macabre milestone tomorrow with America's 1,000th execution since it reintroduced the death penalty in the 1970s.
Barring a miraculous last minute pardon, Robin Lovitt, 41, will be executed tomorrow for the crime of fatally stabbing a man with scissors in a Virginia pool hall robbery in 1998.
Were it not for the landmark it represents, Lovitt's death would be as unremarkable as that of those condemned to death before him - or even the murder of his victim.
Over the past 28 years the United States has on average executed one person every 10 days.
And the conveyor belt is so efficient that reports of executions are hidden inside the local papers.
Indeed the condemned criminal's choice of menu for his last meal inspires as much interest as the method with which the sentence is carried out.
More ... http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/29/wdeath29.xml