USA - Arizona. Samuel Villegas Lopez, 49, hispanic, was executed. it is the execution nr. 1300 since 1977

Samuel Villegas Lopez, 49, hispanic, was executed. Lopez was sentenced to death in 1987 for raping 59-year-old Estafana Holmes and stabbing her to death at her apartment on October 29, 1986. Lopez becomes the 4th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Arizona, the 32nd overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1992, the 23rd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1300th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.