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Communist Vietnam's secret death penalty conveyor belt: How country trails only China and Iran for 'astonishing' number of executions

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Prisoners are dragged from their cells at 4am without warning to be given a lethal injection Vietnam's use of the death penalty has been thrust into the spotlight after a real estate tycoon was on Thursday sentenced to be executed in one of the biggest corruption cases in the country's history. Truong My Lan, a businesswoman who chaired a sprawling company that developed luxury apartments, hotels, offices and shopping malls, was arrested in 2022.

Alabama death row inmate Borden found dead in cell

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Alabama death row inmate Jeffrey Lynn Borden, 57, has died of an apparent suicide, according to the state Department of Corrections.

According to information released Sunday afternoon by the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC), Borden was found "hanging by a bed sheet in his cell at approximately 2:30 a.m. during a security check." Borden was pronounced dead at 3 p.m.

The ADOC statement said Borden's remains had been turned over to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences.

John Palombi, a federal defender who'd represented Borden, issued the following statement: "We are saddened to hear of Mr. Borden's apparent suicide. Mr. Borden suffered from severe mental illness and chronic physical pain, both of which were undertreated by the Department of Corrections despite their knowledge of these issues. We hope that the conditions that led to underfunding and understaffing of the Department, and thus contributed to Mr. Borden's death, will be remedied."

Borden had been on death row since 1995, when he was sentenced for the 1993 murders of Cheryl Borden and Roland Harris. The murders took place at a family gathering in Gardendale on Christmas Eve; according to a summary presented at trial, Borden had traveled from Huntsville to Gardendale to deliver his three children by Cheryl Borden, his legally separate wife. After Cheryl Borden arrived on the scene, Jeffrey Borden shot her in the back of her head outside the house in the presence of the children. Borden then shot Roland Harris, his wife's father, in the back as Harris tried to run into the house. The jury recommended death on a 10-2 vote.

In August 2017, the office of Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sought execution dates for Borden and two other inmates, Doyle Lee Hamm and Torrey Twane McNabb. 

McNabb was executed on Oct. 19; an attempt to execute Hamm if February was called off after difficulties preparing Hamm for lethal injection. Since then, the state has been ordered to release its execution protocol.

Borden had been scheduled to die Oct. 5. That was postponed after a stay was issued by U.S. District Court Judge Keith Watkins. Watkins lifted that stay in November and in February rejected a request from Borden's attorneys to reinstate it.

According to ADOC information, as of Sunday Borden had spent 24 years, five months and 4 days in prison.

Source: AL.com, Lawrence Specker, June 3, 2018


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