USA - Arizona. Edward Schad, 71, White, was executed.

Edward Schad, 71, White, was executed. He was given a lethal dose of pentobarbital at the state prison in Florence. Schad was sentenced to death for killing Lorimer  Grove, 71, during a robbery on August 1, 1978. At the time, Schad was on parole for 2nd-degree murder in the 1968 strangulation death of a male sex partner in Utah. His lawyers in that case said the death was an accident. Schad was convicted in Grove's death in 1979 and again in 1985 after the previous conviction was thrown out. Schad becomes the 1st inmate to be put to death this year in Arizona, the 35th in the state since capital punishment resumed there in 1992, the 29th inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1349th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.