http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:36:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/valdosta-journalist-witnesses-execution-of-william-lynd/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/valdosta-journalist-witnesses-execution-of-william-lynd/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 14:28:00 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/valdosta-journalist-witnesses-execution-of-william-lynd/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/valdosta-journalist-witnesses-execution-of-william-lynd/feed/ 0 William Earl Lynd was executed by lethal injection on May 6 in Jackson, Ga., 45 miles south of Atlanta. He was the first prisoner executed in the United States after the U.S. Supreme Court recently lifted a moratorium on the practice. Dean Poling, a journalist at the Valdosta Daily Times, witnessed and wrote about the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/12/morning-headlines-50/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/12/morning-headlines-50/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 15:16:52 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/12/morning-headlines-50/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/12/morning-headlines-50/feed/ 0 MOTHER’S DAY TORNADOES: Twenty-three people are killed nationally by an estimated 47 twisters from Oklahoma and Missouri to Georgia, making this year the worst so far for tornadoes since 1999. At least one person dies in Georgia as six tornadoes hit through midstate. EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE: A Valdosta Daily Times reporter, who was one of five media [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/11/word-sauteed-in-garlic-butter/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/11/word-sauteed-in-garlic-butter/#comments Sun, 11 May 2008 22:00:54 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/11/word-sauteed-in-garlic-butter/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/11/word-sauteed-in-garlic-butter/feed/ 1 William Earl Lynd, 53, was executed at the state prison in Jackson on May 6, the first execution in the U.S. in seven months. As it does before all executions, the Georgia Department of Corrections issued a press release describing Lynd’s last meal. “Lynd has requested as his last meal two pepper jack BBQ burgers with [...]