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~ Orlando Hall, 19Nov20, (FedTX) ~
By: BuzzC Date: November 13, 2020, 6:45 pm
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Man Who Kidnapped, Killed North Texas Teen Set For Federal
Execution In November--
September 30, 2020
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CHICAGO (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – A death row inmate who was convicted
of kidnapping and killing a Texas teenager in 1994 has been
scheduled for execution in November, the Justice Department
announced Wednesday.
If the lethal injection goes ahead as scheduled Nov. 19, Orlando
Hall would be the eighth person executed this year as part of
the Trump administration’s resumption of federal executions
after a nearly two-decade pause.
Hall, 49, was one of five men who prosecutors said kidnapped
16-year-old Lisa Rene from her home in Arlington, Texas, to get
revenge on her two brothers for a botched $5,000 marijuana deal.
Over two days, she was taken to Arkansas, gang-raped, bludgeoned
with a shovel and buried alive.
Hall’s lawyers said in a statement that their client is
scheduled to die by lethal injection Nov. 19 at a federal prison
in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The Department of Justice confirmed that information.
Last week, Christopher Vialva, 40, was put to death at the same
facility for killing a religious couple visiting Texas from
Iowa.
Hall’s attorneys, Marcia A. Widder and Robert C. Owen said Hall,
who is Black, was sentenced to death on the recommendation of an
all-white jury.
The lawyers said the selection of those jurors displayed racial
bias.
Vialva’s lawyer, Susan Otto, also said race played a role in
landing her client on death row.
Prosecutors say Rene was dragged from the family’s apartment as
she pleaded with a 911 operator.
“They’re trying to break down my door! Hurry up!” she said,
according to a recording of the call.
Hall’s lawyers said he never denied his role in Rene’s killing
and that Hall’s expressions of remorse showed he “is not among
the ‘worst of the worst’ for whom the death penalty is properly
reserved.”
Jurors who decided his fate, they contend, weren’t aware of the
severe trauma Hall experienced growing up and how he had once
saved his 3-year-old nephew from drowning by leaping from a
balcony to rescue the boy at a motel pool.
“Had jurors known these facts about Mr. Hall, there is every
reason to believe they would have spared his life, despite his
admitted involvement in a terrible crime,” the lawyers’
statement said.
Vialva’s Sept. 24 execution was the seventh federal execution
since July and the second in that week. Five of the first six to
die were white, which critics argued was a political calculation
to avoid uproar. The sixth was Navajo.
Questions about racial bias in the criminal justice system have
been front and center since May, following the death of George
Floyd after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee
on the handcuffed Black man’s neck for several minutes.
A recent report by the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty
Information Center said Black people remain overrepresented on
death rows and that Black people who kill white people are far
more likely to be sentenced to death than white people who kill
Black people.
Of the 55 inmates currently on federal death row, nearly 50% are
Black, according to center data updated Wednesday; round 40%,
are white and some 12% Latino. There is one Asian on federal
death row. Black people make up only about 13% of the
population.
Federal authorities executed just three prisoners in the
previous 56 years.
Death penalty foes accuse President Donald Trump of restarting
them to help stake a claim as the law-and-order candidate in the
Nov. 3 election.
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Re: ~ Orlando Hall, 19Nov20, (FedTX) ~
By: BuzzC Date: November 19, 2020, 11:41 pm
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Federal killer Orlando Hall Is Killed--
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Orlando Hall was executed just before midnight after the Supreme
Court allowed the Justice Department to move forward with his
federal death penalty.
Hall’s scheduled execution for 6 p.m. Thursday was delayed by
several last minute legal filings that sought to halt his
killing.
Hall, 49, became the eighth person executed by the U.S.
government since the Trump administration pushed to resume
federal executions for the first time in 17 years. The Justice
Department has carried out more lethal injections in the past
four months than the total number the federal government
executed over the previous three decades.
Hall was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering
16-year-old Lisa Rene in Arkansas in 1994.
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