The state of Alabama executed a man for killing a pastor with a sword in 1991 on May 30 during a robbery attempt.
Price was convicted in the slaying of pastor Bill Lynn. He used a sword and a knife in the attack, which occurred just days before Christmas.
“A man is much more than his worst mistake,” Price said in a statement before his death.
Gov. Kay Ivey said that Price had to be punished for his brutal crime.
“Finally, the loved ones of Pastor Lynn can feel at ease knowing that justice has been administered. I pray that, after all these years later, his family can feel a sense of peace and comfort,” she said, CBS reported.
Price was nearly executed in April before the execution warrant expired. Later, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 on May 30 to allow his execution to go ahead.
The prisoner asked to die via nitrogen hypoxia, which kills by depleting the body of oxygen, Fox reported.
CBS reported that within minutes of the lethal injection, “color soon began draining from his face as additional drugs flowed through an intravenous line.” He was pronounced dead soon after that.
The Alabama Attorney General’s office issued a lengthy statement about the execution.
Marshall continued: “Christopher Price was put to death at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, fighting until the very end to avoid facing the consequences of his heinous crime.”
The official described Price‘s crime and its impact.
Death Penalty Abolished in New Hampshire
This week, New Hampshire, which hasn’t executed anyone in 80 years and has only one inmate on death row, became the latest state to abolish the death penalty when the state Senate voted to override the governor’s veto.The Senate vote came a week after the 400-member House voted by the narrowest possible margin to override Republican Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto of a bill to repeal capital punishment.
With New Hampshire’s action, 29 states allow capital punishment, but in four of them, governors have issued moratoriums on the death penalty, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Twenty-one states have abolished or overturned it.
New Hampshire’s death penalty applies in only seven scenarios: the killing of an on-duty law enforcement officer or judge, murder for hire, murder during a rape, certain drug offenses, or home invasion and murder by someone already serving a life sentence without parole.
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