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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. |