Posted on 11/20/2020 4:48:10 AM PST by karpov
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department executed Orlando Cordia Hall on late Thursday for his role in the 1994 kidnapping and killing of a 16-year-old girl, after the Supreme Court cleared the way earlier in the night.
His execution, by lethal injection at the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., was the eighth by the Trump administration since this summer, when it resumed use of capital punishment by the federal government after a 17-year hiatus.
Mr. Hall, 49, was the first of three federal prisoners scheduled for execution during the presidential transition. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has said he will work to end the use of capital punishment by the federal government, reversing President Trump’s support for it.
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A statement from the family of Mr. Hall’s victim said that it was “the end of a very long and painful chapter” in their lives. The statement also said that “the execution of Orlando Hall will never stop the suffering we continue to endure.”
“Please pray for our family as well as his,” it added.
According to the Justice Department, Mr. Hall was a part of a marijuana trafficking operation out of Pine Bluff, Ark. In 1994, he and others went to the home of a man in Arlington, Texas, who they believed had reneged on a drug transaction, the department said. There, the group kidnapped the man’s 16-year-old sister, and members of the group later raped her, beat her over the head with a shovel, soaked her with gasoline and buried her alive, it said.
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Its about time, isn’t it?
Glad they have the process down, just in time for all the Treason cases.
nice to see the DOJ doing somthething.
Good to hear. But why can’t we find another source for our news other than the NYT? Hopelessly corrupt outfit. I will not visit their web site.
And yet they sure couldn’t wait to execute McVeigh.
Hypocrites. One and all.
26 years. When something as horrific as this crime occurs, execution should take place less that an hour after conviction in a public plaza, on live television, so other cruds will understand the consequences.
Horrendous crime. He & his ‘friends’ should have been executed decades ago.
Libs always worry about the criminal,never the victim...
Tim was in the express lane.
He knew too much
Better late than never, I suppose.................
McVeigh dropped all his appeals
He would probably still be alive if he had allowed his lawyers to continue filing appeals.
I doubt that.
So - when will Nidal Hasan be granted his face-to-face with his ‘deity’?
If this doesn't merit the death penalty, then what does? Yet Joe Biden will stop this man from the death penalty while sentencing millions of children to death by abortion.
With free pizza for all viewers, online and on TV, to be delivered by uber-eatshit or bidenschinadeliveryservice.
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