TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - Orlando Hall got stiffed on a drug deal and went to a Texas apartment looking for the two brothers who took his money.
They weren't home, but their 16-year-old sister was.Late Thursday, Hall was put to death for abducting and killing the teenager, Lisa Rene.
His was the eighth federal execution this year since the Trump administration revived a process that had been used just three times in the past 56 years.
A judge’s stay over concerns about the execution drug gave Hall a reprieve, but for less than six hours. After the Supreme Court overturned the stay, he was put to death just before midnight.Hall, a changed man in prison according to his lawyers and a church volunteer who had grown close to him, was consoling.