Georgia is going to execute a convicted murderer today. William Earl Lynd will be the first U.S. inmate to be put to death since the Supreme Court ended a de facto moratorium on capital punishment last month. The convict will be put to death injecting a lethal shot at a prison in Jackson, central Georgia, at 7 p.m. (2300 GMT). 

According to authorities, Lynd got death sentence for shooting his girlfriend Ginger Moore three times in the head and face in December 1988. After killing his girlfriend, Lynd buried his victim in a shallow grave near Tifton, South Georgia. Soon afterward, while driving to Ohio, he shot and killed another woman but he has not been convicted of that crime.

The opponents of death penalty say they plan demonstrations in five cities in Georgia at the time of the execution, as well as outside the prison.

Meanwhile, Lynd's lawyers have appealed to the state's Supreme Court for a stay of execution, arguing that experts who described the murder scene in court exaggerated what they saw.

Laura Moye of Amnesty International feels, Had the experts described the scene accurately, Lynd would not have been charged with aggravated murder and kidnapping, crimes that warrant the death penalty in Georgia.