US set to execute first prisoner in seven months
Barring a last-minute intervention by the courts, a man in the state of Georgia who killed his girlfriend is likely to become the first inmate put to death since a US Supreme Court review halted executions last September.
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied William Earl Lynd's appeal for clemency, rejecting his lawyer's argument that forensic evidence at his 1990 trial was flawed and clearing the way for his execution, scheduled for 7pm (11pm Irish time) today.
