US puts convicted killer to death in 8th federal execution under Trump

Washington, November 19

The US authorities put convicted rapist and assassin Orlando Hall to demise by deadly injection on Thursday, the eighth execution below the Trump administration since capital punishment was reinstated on the federal stage over the summer time.

Hall, 49, was pronounced useless at 11:47 pm. EDT after officers on the US Bureau of Prisons administered him a deadly dose of the barbiturate pentobarbital on the bureau’s execution chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana, a spokeswoman for the company mentioned.

Hall was the second African-American man to be executed by deadly injection on federal demise row in current months.

He was convicted by an all-white jury for his position within the 1994 kidnapping, rape and homicide of the 16-year-old sister of two Texas drug sellers whom Hall suspected had stolen cash from him.

He, and three different males, kidnapped Lisa Rene from her condominium in Texas and drove her again to a motel room in Arkansas the place they tied her up, raped her and beat her with a shovel earlier than she was buried alive.

The demise sentence was carried out shortly after the US Supreme Court denied an 11th-hour petition for a keep, overturning a lower-court order that had blocked the execution on grounds that the federal government’s protocols for administering sodium pentobarbital and not using a prescription violated the regulation.

Hall’s execution got here because the United States has confronted a reckoning over racial injustice sparked by the demise of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man taken into custody and handcuffed, as he lay gasping for breath, his neck pinned to the bottom below the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis.

US Attorney General William Barr ended a 17-year hiatus in federal executions in July, after asserting final 12 months that the Bureau of Prisons was switching to a brand new single-drug methodology for deadly injections, from a three-drug mixture it final utilized in 2003. Reuters