USA - David Dorsey IV was executed today in Texas

David Dorsey IV, 32, was executed today. Dorsey already was in prison, serving 60 years after pleading guilty to killing a woman during a convenience store robbery, when a Dallas police cold case squad gathered enough evidence to tie him to the unsolved shooting deaths four years earlier of James Armstrong, 26, and Brad Lindsey, 20, on Easter Sunday night in 1994. Most of the crime was recorded on security cameras in the store. Dorsey initially was questioned about the slayings after his girlfriend reported to police that he had admitted the shootings to her. But police initially believed the 18-year-old was too tall, based on images from the security tape. Five months after the video store killings, Dorsey killed a 51-year-old Korean woman, Hyon Suk Chon, during another robbery. He was in prison for that slaying when he was questioned again about the double slaying and confessed. Dorsey becomes the 7th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas, and the 412th overall since the state resumed capital punishment on December 7, 1982. Dorsey becomes the 19th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1118th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.