USA - Alabama. William Glen Boyd, 45, white, was executed

William Glen Boyd, 45, white, was executed at Holman Prison in Atmore. Boyd had been on death row since his 1987 capital murder conviction in the 1986 deaths of a couple, Fred Blackmon, 76, and his 41-year-old wife, Evelyn. A group of 14 protesters appeared about a quarter-mile from the prison entrance just before the execution began. Boyd becomes the 2nd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Alabama and the 51st overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1983. Boyd becomes the 11th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1245th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.