USA - Alabama. Eddie Duval Powell, 41, black, was executed.

Eddie Duval Powell, 41, black, was executed. With his last words, he apologized to the victim's family, his family and to "everyone in the state." He was sentenced to die for raping, robbing and shooting to death Mattie Wesson, 70, white, on March 25, 1995. Powell became the fourth person executed in Alabama this year and the second person since the state switched to pentobarbital.