A coincidence: Troy Davis, the black man whose execution by the state of Georgia drew widespread condemnation on the basis of the tenuous evidence behind it, was executed on the same night as Lawrence Brewer, whose own capital case provoked little sympathy. He was one of the men convicted of dragging James Byrd to death behind a pickup truck in 1998.?
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Source: http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2011/09/22/the-second-execution
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