USA - Arizona. Thomas Arnold Kemp, 63, white, was executed

Thomas Arnold Kemp, 63, white, was executed. Kemp was sentenced to death for kidnapping Hector Soto Juarez, 25, on July 11, 1992, and robbing him before shooting him twice in the head. Kemp has argued that his conviction was unfair because then-prosecutor Kenneth Peasley repeatedly told jurors that Kemp's homosexuality was behind Juarez's kidnapping and murder, and that the jury hadn't been properly vetted for their feelings about gay men. Kemp becomes the 3rd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Arizona and the 31st overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1992. Kemp becomes the 16th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1293rd overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.