NEW : Georgia executes inmate convicted of killing girlfriend in 1988 . The state executed the man who killed his girlfriend, a woman he had been dating for two years, after an appeals court ruled that Georgia's death penalty law was unconstitutional. Lynd 's is first U.S. execution since Supreme Court upheld lethal injection . We think this rush to executions is irresponsible in light of the many well-documented problems that have been revealed about the death penalty . '' About a dozen other states are planning executions .
NEW : Georgia executes inmate convicted of killing girlfriend in 1988 . The state executed the man who killed his girlfriend, a woman he had been dating for two years, after an appeals court ruled that Georgia's death penalty law was unconstitutional. Lynd 's is first U.S. execution since Supreme Court upheld lethal injection . About a dozen other states are planning executions .