RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) - A convicted killer prepared to die on Friday in the 1,000th execution in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty after a final bid for clemency failed to bring a reprieve.
Kenneth Lee Boyd, 57, was to be strapped to a gurney at the Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina at 2 a.m. (0700 GMT) and injected with a lethal mix of drugs for the killing in 1988 of his wife and father-in-law in front of two of his children.
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