"Patrick Lane Moody" was a convicted killer, put to death by lethal injection in Raleigh, North Carolina/Raleigh's Central Prison.

On September 16, 1994, Moody, who was of marginal intelligence, shot and killed his girlfriend's husband. Moody's girlfriend, Wanda Robbins, of Davidson County, North Carolina, convinced him to shoot and kill her husband, Donnie Robbins, who had a $5000 life insurance policy.

Many requests for clemency were made, on the grounds of both his marginal intelligence and allegations that the drugs used in North Carolina's lethal injection mixture could cause "unconstitutional pain and suffering". All requests were denied by North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley.

For his final meal he ate turkey with dressing, a tossed salad with blue cheese dressing, strawberry cheesecake, and a Coke. His final words were, "I'll see you in heaven. I'll see you up there."

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The Diviners is such a big, woolly yarn, yet it's the fastest any book has come to me since The Ice Storm.

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It made it more personal and easier to talk.

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But I think resolution is cheap and for lazy readers. Real life doesn't have that resolution. It's probably never going to be in my nature to deliver a proper ending.

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[If you are a lover of the carefully crafted sentence, if] more isn't enough ... the worst writer of his generation.

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There's more and more coming at us.

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Writing about the classics is a really important exercise, because you really need to dig deep to do it.

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We ran hard and had a few injuries. We just didn't have anything go well this week.

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The Diviners ... an elusive, but surely huge, television saga ... that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a Mormon diviner in the Las Vegas desert.

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They just really outplayed us; they played a great game from start to finish. Thomas was just a dominant player. We started to make a run in the third quarter, and then they hit two 3-pointers. We chipped away, but those two shots took away any energy we had.

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