Amnesty International seeks to stop Georgia execution

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By David Beasley
ATLANTA | Tue Oct 4, 2011 9:45am EDT

(Reuters) - Death penalty opponents urged Georgia on Monday to halt the execution of a man convicted of raping and killing a woman in 1994, saying there was inadequate evidence linking him to the crime.

Marcus Ray Johnson, 46, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the killing of Angela Sizemore in Albany, Georgia. Sizemore, 34, was mutilated and stabbed 41 times with a small knife, according to trial testimony ...

"We are deeply troubled to see the state of Georgia prepare to execute another prisoner while serious doubts about his guilt are unresolved," said Laura Moye, director of Amnesty International's Death Penalty Abolition Campaign ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/04/us-execution-georgia-idUSTRE7930CX20111004

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1. Attorney: Execution delayed for Georgia inmate convicted of 1994 murder of Albany woman

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/attorney-execution-delayed-for-georgia-inmate-convicted-of-1994-murder-of-albany-woman/2011/10/04/gIQAp5cFLL_story.html