USA - Arizona. Richard Lynn Bible, 49, white, was executed

Richard Lynn Bible, 49, white, was executed today in Florence for the June 1988 rape and murder of 9-year-old Jennifer Wilson. Bible becomes the 3rd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Arizona and the 27th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1992. Bible becomes the 25th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1259th overall since the nation resumed capital punishment on January 17, 1977, when Gary Gilmore was put to death by firing squad in the Utah State Penitentiary.