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83-Year-Old Man Convicted of Killing a Judge With a Mail Bomb Has Been Executed

(ATMORE, Ala.) —An Alabama inmate convicted of the mail-bomb slaying of a federal judge during a wave of Southern terror in 1989 was executed by lethal injection Thursday, becoming the oldest prisoner put to death in the U.S. in modern times. Walter Leroy Moody Jr., 83, was pronounced dead at 8:42 p.m.

 

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