Wednesday, May 21, 2008 by toddv
The Associated Press
PARCHMAN - State corrections officials say convicted murderer Earl Wesley Berry has been executed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.
Berry’s execution came at 6:15 p.m CDT Wednesday.
He had hoped for a last-minute stay from the U.S. Supreme Court, but the full court denied his appeals and he was put to death by lethal injection for abducting Mary Bounds outside her church in 1987 and beating her to death.
Berry is the second inmate executed in the nation since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Kentucky’s lethal injection procedure in April.
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