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Should murder accomplices face execution?

Should murder accomplices face execution? By John Gramlich, Stateline.orgStaff Writer An execution last month in Mississippi and another scheduled for this month in Texas have reignited a debate over whether the death penalty should be given to those who participate in killings ? but do not personally carry them out. Dale Bishop was executed July 23 in Mississippi for his role in the 1998 murder of an acquaintance who was beaten to death with a claw hammer along a rural road near Tupelo. But Bishop did not strike the fatal blows. According to uncontested trial testimony, Bishop held and kicked the victim while another man, Jessie Johnson, fatally attacked him with the hammer. Johnson is serving a life sentence without parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).