FACTBOX: Pending executions in the United States

Tue May 6, 2008 8:13pm EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Georgia executed a convicted murderer on Tuesday, the first person to be put to death in the United States since the Supreme Court ended a de facto moratorium on capital punishment last month.

The execution is the first of a series of pending executions that were put on hold. Following is a list of those due to take place in May and June.

May 27 - Kevin Green (Virginia) - Convicted of capital murder and robbery after robbing a convenience store in 1998.

June 3 - Derrick Sonnier (Texas) - Convicted for the 1991 rape and murder of a woman and the death by stabbing of her son in a Houston suburb.

June 10 - Percy Walton (Virginia) - Pleaded guilty to four counts of capital murder. All of the victims were neighbors. Has been on death row since 1997.

June 17 - Terry Lyn Short (Oklahoma) - Sentenced to death in 1995 for throwing a homemade bomb into an Oklahoma City apartment building, resulting in one death.

June 17 - Charles Hood (Texas) - Convicted of murdering two people in 1989 in a Dallas suburb.

June 25 - Robert Yarbrough - (Virginia) - Convicted of killing a convenience store owner during a robbery in 1997.

(Sources: Death Penalty Resource Community and Death Penalty Information Center)

(Editing by Jim Loney and Eric Beech)

 

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