Kenneth Boyd

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Kenneth Lee Boyd (born January 19, 1948 , † December 2, 2005 in Raleigh , North Carolina ) was a US citizen sentenced to death for murder and the 1,000th person to be executed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The case sparked controversial discussions between opponents and supporters of the death penalty.

On July 14, 1994 , Boyd was sentenced to death in a second trial for the murder of his separated wife and father on March 4, 1988 . At the trial, it allegedly did not matter that Boyd was a traumatized Vietnam veteran , nor that he was considered mentally handicapped, delusional, depressed, and under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crime. Boyd confessed and regretted the act. On December 1, 2005, North Carolina Governor Michael Easley declined the pardon. Protests from opponents of the death penalty, from Amnesty International and the Catholic Bishop of Raleigh, Joseph Gossman , also brought nothing. Boyd was executed by lethal injection on December 2, 2005 .

In his recent interviews, Boyd condemned the death penalty as an act of revenge by the state and expressed regret that it went down in history not as a person but as a number, namely "1000".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NC carries out nation's 1,000th execution: Convicted killer dies by lethal injection; death penalty reinstated in 1976 on msnbc.com
  2. ^ Richard Luscombe (Miami) and Joanna Walters (New York): The debate that polarises America in The Observer, December 4, 2005
  3. ↑ a b Death penalty: USA carry out 1000th execution on Spiegel online from December 2, 2005
  4. ^ A b c North Carolina Department of Correction: Kenneth Lee Boyd- Chronology of Events
  5. ↑ National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) of December 2, 2005: Do Not Execute Kenneth Lee Boyd! ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.demaction.org
  6. ^ Brenda Goodman: North Carolina Man Is 1,000th Executed in: New York Times, December 1, 2005
  7. ↑ USA: A thousand executions since 1976 in: Die Welt, December 2, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Boyd, Kenneth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boyd, Kenneth Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American murderer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1948
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 2005
Place of death Raleigh , North Carolina