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Alabama Execution: Darrell Grayson who has been on death row since 1982, is scheduled to die by lethal injection this evening in Atmore, Alabama. In 1982 Grayson was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1980 murder of 86-year-old Annie Laura Orr, reports Phillip Rawls with the AP. The pro-death penalty website (scroll down, last story on page) has more details about this crime committed by Grayson and his already executed accomplice Victor Kennedy.

Posted by CJLF Staff on July 26, 2007 11:04 AM |

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Grayson has been executed. The claims of innocence here were pretty specious. After all, don't most innocent people admit on cross-examination that they raped and murdered an 86 year-old woman?

Posted by: federalist [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 26, 2007 05:20 PM

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