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       ~ Walter Moody, 19Apr18, (AL) ~
   DIR By: BuzzC
       Date: April 19, 2018, 9:50 pm
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       Walter Leroy Moody, 83-year-old package bomber, executed in
       Alabama--
       Thursday, April 19, 2018
       Alabama has executed Walter Leroy Moody, 83, the oldest U.S.
       inmate to be put to death in modern times. The execution
       occurred Thursday evening, after a temporary delay because of a
       pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Moody's final appeal.
       Moody was convicted in 1996 in a December 1989 package bombing
       that killed a federal judge, and was originally scheduled to die
       Thursday evening at 6 p.m. CDT.
       The nation’s highest court issued the stay order Thursday
       evening on behalf of Moody as it considered his requests to
       block the lethal injection procedure.
       Moody became the oldest inmate put to death since executions
       resumed in the U.S. in the 1970's, according to the Death
       Penalty Information Center.
       On Wednesday, the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals denied
       Moody’s request for a stay of execution, AL.com reported.
       The court that denied Moody’s request Wednesday was the same one
       his victim was a member of nearly 30 years ago.
       U.S. 11th Circuit of Appeals Judge Robert Vance Sr. was in his
       home in Mountain Brook, Ala., nine days before Christmas in
       1989, when he opened a package that Moody had mailed to him,
       authorities have said.
       The blast from the package instantly killed Vance and severely
       injured his wife, Helen, they said.
       At his 1996 trial, prosecutors described Moody as a meticulous
       coward who committed murder by mail because of his obsession
       with getting revenge on the legal system, and then committed
       more bombings to make it look like the Ku Klux Klan was behind
       the judge’s murder.
       Prosecutors said Moody, who had attended law school, had a
       grudge against the legal system because the 11th Circuit refused
       to overturn a 1972 pipe-bomb possession conviction that
       prevented him from practicing law.
       A similar device linked to Moody killed Robert E. Robinson, a
       black civil rights attorney from Savannah, Ga. Two other mail
       bombs were later intercepted and defused, including one at an
       NAACP office in Jacksonville, Fla. Authorities said those bombs
       were meant to make investigators think the crimes were racially
       motivated.
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