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TEXAS (USA): MAN EXECUTED FOR 1994 KILLING

January 26, 2012: Rodrigo Hernandez, 38, hispanic, was executed.
Hernandez was sentenced to death on March 22, 2004 for the February 1994 rape and slaying of Susan Verstegen, 25.
The slaying went unsolved for 8 years until Hernandez, as a requirement for parole from a Michigan prison, had to submit a DNA sample that went into a national database.
The DNA linked him to her death. Advances in DNA technology 2 years ago also tied Hernandez to the 1991 slaying of a 77-year-old homeless woman, Muriel Stoepker, in Michigan.
He was not tried for her death. Hernandez insisted he was innocent of both slayings.
Hernandez becomes the 1st condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas and the 478th overall since the state resumed capital punishment on December 7, 1987.
He becomes the 239th inmate to be put to death since Rick Perry governor of Texas in 2011; Perry has now been governor for exactly 1/2 of all executions in Texas in the modern era, since the death penalty was re-legalized on July 2, 1976.
Hernandez becomes the 2nd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1279th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977. (Sources: Associated Press & Rick Halperin, 26/01/2012)

YEMEN: EXECUTION OF TWO OPPOSITIONISTS
PORTUGAL: SUPREME COURT REJECTS 2ND US APPEAL TO EXTRADITE FUGITIVE GEORGE WRIGHT
BOTSWANA: DEATH ROW INMATE HANGED
IRAN: MAN HANGED PUBLICLY FOR MURDER
IRAN: MAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
SRI LANKA: TRISHAW DRIVER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING HEROIN
INDIA: HC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAHENDRA
SAUDI ARABIA: CONVICTED DRUG SMUGGLER BEHEADED
UAE: TWO AFGHAN MEN TO BE EXECUTED FOR MURDER
PAKISTAN: TALIBAN EXECUTE 21 CAPTURED PARAMILITARY MEN
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE FOR BLASPHEMY
IRAN: TWO HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
SYRIA: SENIOR ARMY DEFECTOR EXECUTED
INDIA: COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY IN DRUG CASE FOR THE FIRST TIME
IRAN. ONE PRISONER HANGED
IRAN: GUARDIAN COUNCIL APPROVES NEW PENAL LEGISLATION
EGYPT: MUBARAK ASKS WORLD LEADERS TO SAVE HIM FROM EXECUTION
PAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH FOR MURDER
KUWAIT: PARDON FOR DEATH ROW INMATES
ETHIOPIA: DEATH PENALTY FOR BLOGGER, PRISON FOR JOURNALISTS
NIGERIA: OGUN STATE GOVERNOR COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF 2 PRISONERS
MALAYSIA: IRANIAN MAN ESCAPES DEATH SENTENCE
SRI LANKA: TWO BROTHERS RECEIVE DEATH SENTENCE
BELARUS: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT READY TO REVIEW ITS POSITION ON DEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: UN HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF CONDEMNS EXECUTIONS AS 'SHOCKING'
USA: DEATH PENALTY FOR FEMALE OFFENDERS
ZIMBABWE: ZANU-PF REVERSAL ON DEATH PENALTY HOLDS UP CONSTITUTION DRAFT
INDIA: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDERING FIVE
US SUPREME COURT DECISION MEANS D'AMBROSIO STAYS FREE
SUDAN: 8 DARFURIANS RECEIVE DEATH SENTENCE AFTER RAPING GIRL IN KASS

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