Media center

Photos of the day - Dec. 2, 2005

Alan Gell, right,who was exonerated from North Carolina's death row last February, survey's his previous residence, Raleigh's Central Prison, alongside Olivia Harris, 15 of Gates County, North Carolina, during a vigil Thursday night in Raleigh, North Carolina. Kenneth Lee Boyd, convicted of killing his estranged wife and father-in-law in 1988, died several hours later by lethal injection at the prison. The execution marked the nation's 1,000th since capital punishment resumed in 1977.