USA - Mississippi. Paul Everette Woodward was executed

Paul Everette Woodward was executed this evening at Parchman. Woodward, 62, white, was sentenced to death in 1987 for sexually assaulting and killing 24-year-old Rhonda Crane on April 29, 1987. Woodward becomes the 1st condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Mississippi and the 11th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1983. Woodward becomes the 20th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1208th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.