N. Carolina carries out 1,000th execution

Reaction around the world to Boyd's death was swift.

"It is a scandal that the death penalty still exists in a civilized country like the United States of America," said Petra Herrmann, chairwoman of the German group Alive e.V.

".... How can a citizen realize that murder is wrong if the state is allowed to murder its own citizens?"

Akiko Takada of Japan's anti-capital punishment group Forum 90 said that despite frequent use of the death penalty in the United States "crime there shows no signs of diminishing, so ultimately the death of these people has no effect."

"This is one small step for humankind -- backwards," American campaigner Clive Stafford Smith told Reuters in London. "The death penalty makes us all far more barbaric ..."

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