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Jefferson City News Tribune By JIM SALTER
June 19, 2007
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A two-year investigation into whether a St. Louis man was executed for a crime he didn't commit is expected to wrap up soon, the lead investigator in the case told The Associated Press Monday.
The man who said he owed it to his victims and society to die has been granted his wish of execution.
Tuesday morning, Robert Charles Comer became the first inmate in the state to be put to death since November 2000.
Published: Tuesday, 22 May, 2007, 08:40 AM Doha Time
WASHINGTON: After years on death row, two US prisoners face execution by lethal injection this week. What makes them unusual is that they are choosing to die, after renouncing their right to appeals.
by Sister Helen Prejean (Vintage Books, copyright1993)
Reprinted by permission of the author and the Watkins/Loomis Agency
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