A Georgia board denied condemned killer William Earl Lynd's clemency bid, paving the way for him to likely become the nation's first inmate put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court held that lethal injection is constitutional.
Lynd still has an appeal pending before the Georgia Supreme Court seeking to stay his execution, which is scheduled for this evening at 7 p.m. It is unclear when the state's top court will act on that request.
His lawyers appealed to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles yesterday arguing the medical evidence presented at his trial was unreliable.
Lynd was sentenced to die for kidnapping and fatally shooting his live-in girlfriend, Ginger Moore, in 1988, after the two consumed Valium, marijuana and alcohol.
Prosecutors say Moore suffered a slow, agonizing death, regaining consciousness twice after being shot in the head.
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