Black executed
Florida has executed a black for the first time in 20 years after the United States Supreme Court refused to allow more consideration of arguments that the state’s death penalty is disproportionately applied to blacks. James Adams, aged 47, was convicted of beating to death a rancher with a poker while burgling his home in November, 1974. Adams was the nineteenth man executed in the United States since the death penalty was restored in 1976. Five of the executions have been in Florida, four of them in the last six months. — Miami.
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Press, 12 May 1984, Page 26
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