WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 25th September, 2020) The US government has executed the seventh inmate and first Black man since the resumption of the Federal death penalty, a media witness on the scene said.
Inmate Christopher Vialva, 40, was executed Thursday afternoon for killing two youth ministers in the state of Texas in 2000. Time of death was 6:42 p.m. EST (10:42 p.m. GMT), WHTI correspondent Alia Blackburn said in a tweet.
Vialva's lawyer claimed that racial bias had a role in his sentence. Hours before the execution, the US Supreme Court denied Vialva's request for a stay.
