USA - Mississippi. Rodney Gray, 39, white, was executed.

Rodney Gray, 39, white, was executed. He received the death sentence in 1996 for the 1994 kidnapping, rape, robbery and murder of 79-year-old Grace Blackwell. Gray becomes the 2nd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Mississippi and the 15th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1983. Gray becomes the 17th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1251st overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.