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A Georgia inmate convicted of rape and murder has 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.
become the first person to be executed in the US since the botched 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.
lethal injection of a prisoner in Oklahoma in April. 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.
Marcus Wellons, 59, was killed by injection on Tuesday Georgia uses one drug, the sedative pentobarbital, for executions. Oklahoma uses three.
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.