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Larry GRIFFIN
Classification: Murderer ?
Characteristics: Serious doubts about his guilt - Revenge
- Drugs
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: June 26,
1980
Date of arrest:
4 days after
Date of birth: September 23,
1954
Victim profile: Quinton Moss,
19(drug
dealer)
Method of murder: Shooting (.30 caliber semi-automatic carbine)
Location: St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
Status: Executed
by lethal injection in Missouri on June 21,
1995
Archival
audio from Larry Griffin's execution
Missourinet reporter Julie Anderson covered the
execution of Larry Griffin in 1995 and recorded the pre and post-execution
news briefings (Audio:
16 min, mp3).
The audio has been slightly edited to eliminate
some pauses but no content has been chagned. Reporter questions
which wee asked off-mic have been amplified to make them audible.
The first minute of audio is Corrections Department spokesman Tim
Kniest announcing the execution would go ahead after the appeals
which caused it to be delayed had been exhausted. The rest of the
material is the post-execution press conference. The Corrections
Department employees heard are Kniest, Corrections Director Dora
Shriro, and George Lombardi, the director of adult institutions.
Anderson filed this account of Griffin's final
hours while his last appeals were being considered. (Audio:
30 sec, mp3)
