Kenneth Lee Boyd (* 19 January 1948; "† 2 December 2005 in Raleigh, North Carolina) was an US-American murderer.

On 14 July 1994 the Viet Nam veteran Kenneth Boyd was separated in a second approach for the murder at its from him living woman and its father-in-law to 4. March 1988 to death condemns. The drunk Boyd shot thereby inconsiderately at its wife, also as this already at the soil lay and one of its children, which had clasped itself to its nut/mother and under it was. Another of the four sons tried to entreissen it the weapon than it reloading had. However it fired the bodies still on, after the police arrived, which the emergency service, which it had called, had sent to the dwelling.

With the negotiation it was not noted that Boyd a traumatisierter Viet Nam veteran was that it was considered as mentally handicapped, was alkoholisiert and at illusion conceptions and suffered depressions. Boyd was confessing and also repentant. All requests for grace were rejected by the governor von North Carolina, Easley. Also protests of opponents of the death penalty, of Amnesty international and the catholic bishop von Raleigh, Joseph Gossman, did not fruchteten.

The special at this execution were neither the case, only the little attention in the public had found still the protests, but the fact that Boyd was in-thousandth executed humans in the USA since the re-establishment of the death penalty 1976. In last interviews Boyd had condemned the death penalty as act of revenge of the state and had expressed besides regret over the fact that he not when humans but when number will enter history. Its lawyer expressed itself after the execution as follows: "The Exekution of Kenneth Boyd did not mark the world more surely made "and "if this thousandth execution a milestone, then it is a milestone, for which we should be ashamed all ".

Even if Boyd stays only as number has it indirectly a new discussion over the death penalty in the USA on set, which admits still by to today about 130 become miscarriages of justice is angefacht. Even if Boyd were a confessing author, he applies to many as a victim of a missed policy. Still in the evening of the same daily with Shawn Paul Humphries of the 1001te humans one executed.

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