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GEORGIA (USA): BRIAN KEITH TERRELL EXECUTED
December 9, 2015: Brian Keith Terrell, 47, Black, was executed.
Terrell was convicted of murder in the June 1992 killing of 70-year-old John Watson.
In 1992, Terrell stole Watson's checkbook and withdrew a total of $8,700 from the victim's bank account. Watson, a friend of Terrell's mother, told the woman he would not press charges against her son if a substantial amount of the stolen money was returned within 2 days.
Instead, Terrell ambushed Watson as he left his house for a dialysis appointment.
Terrell was previously set for execution on 10 March, but after Department of Corrections officials discovered solid chunks had formed in the drug that was to be used in another execution on 2 March they temporarily suspended all executions to allow time for an analysis of the drug.
The state has said the most likely cause was that the drug was shipped and stored at a temperature that was too cold. Precautions were taken to prevent it happening again, state lawyers said.
Terrell is the 5th person Georgia has put to death this year, more than any other year since the state first used lethal injection in 2001.
He is the 60th put to death since the state resumed executions in 1983, the 28th of the year in the Usa, and the number 1422 since Usa resumed executions in 1977. (Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 09/12/2015)
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