Man Executed for Alabama Shooting

Reuters @ Irish Times - A man convicted of the 1994 execution-style shooting of a store clerk in Alabama was put to death yesterday by lethal injection in the third US execution this week.

Derrick O'Neal Mason (37), was pronounced dead at 6.49pm local time at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Department of Corrections spokesman Grantt Culliver said. Mason spent 16 years on death row.  Read more.