USA - Delaware. Robert Jackson III, 38, white, was executed. It was Delaware’s 1st execution since 2005, and the first with Pentobarbital

Robert Jackson III, 38, white, was executed. It was Delaware’s 1st execution since 2005. A small group gathered outside the prison to protest, though one woman came to express her support for the execution. Jackson's execution was the 1st time Delaware included pentobarbital as one of three drugs used to carry out an execution. Jackson's execution followed a series of legal challenges that stretched into the hours before he was executed. His lawyers had argued that Jackson should be allowed to challenge the state's switch to pentobarbital as an execution drug, saying it posed a risk of pain and suffering. But the U.S. Supreme Court and Delaware Gov. Jack Markell ultimately denied requests to stay the execution. Jackson was sentenced to death for the April 3 1992 killing of the 47-year-old Girardi. Jackson is the 15th person Delaware has put to death since 1992 when the state again began executions after a decades-long hiatus. The last inmate to be executed by the state was Brian Steckel, who was executed in 2005. A total of 19 other inmates, all men, are currently on death row in the state. Jackson becomes the 30th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1264th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977. (see also July 11).