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Georgia carries out first US execution since botched Oklahoma lethal injection | Georgia carries out first US execution since botched Oklahoma lethal injection |
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A Georgia inmate convicted of rape and murder has become the first person to be executed in the US since the botched lethal injection of a prisoner in Oklahoma in April. | |
Marcus Wellons, 59, was killed by injection on Tuesday night after last-minute appeals were denied. A corrections spokesman said he was pronounced dead at 11.56pm, more than an hour after the procedure began. | |
Wellons was convicted and sentenced to die in 1993 for the 1989 killing of his 15-year-old neighbour, India Roberts, a high school sophomore from the Atlanta suburbs. Authorities said Wellons raped and strangled the teen. | |
Georgia uses one drug, the sedative pentobarbital, for executions. Oklahoma uses three. | |