USA - Georgia. William Mark Mize, 52, white, was executed today

William Mark Mize, 52, white, was executed today by lethal injection at the state prison at Jackson for the murder of a follower of his white supremacist group. Mize was convicted of the October 15, 1994 murder of Eddie Tucker, who was shot after he failed to follow orders to burn down what Mize considered to be a crack house. Mize becomes the 2nd condemned inmate to be put to death in Georgia this year and the 45th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1983. Mize becomes the 23rd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1159th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.