RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) - A double murderer on Friday became the 1,000th prisoner executed in the United States since the reinstatement of capital punishment, triggering renewed national and global debate about the death penalty.
The execution of Kenneth Lee Boyd in North Carolina was followed by that in neighboring South Carolina, also through lethal injection, of Shawn Paul Humphries, who killed a convenience store owner during a robbery.
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