USA - Alabama. Jason Oric Williams, 43, white, was executed. He was the first inmate in Alabama to be executed using pentobarbital

Jason Oric Williams, 43, white, was executed. He was the first inmate in Alabama to be executed using pentobarbital in the state's three-drug lethal injection. Williams killed 4 people and injured three others during a shooting rampage on Feb. 15, 1992. Gerald Paravicini, 46, Freddie Barber, 50, Linda Barber, 45, and Bryan Barber, 22, were shot and killed in their homes. Defense lawyers for Williams challenged the use of pentobarbital in the execution, arguing that it wasn't proven to cease consciousness or otherwise stop the ability to feel pain. The U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay of execution minutes before it began. Williams, then 23, claimed that he had used crack cocaine, LSD, and alcohol in the hours leading up the shooting. Williams becomes the 3rd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Alabama and the 52nd overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1983. Williams becomes the 18th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1252nd overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.