USA - Tennessee. Steve Henley, 55, white, was executed

Steve Henley, 55, white, was executed. Henley has always maintained that he was not the man who shot Fred and Edna Stafford, both white, in 1985. His co-defendant, Terry Flatt, testified that Henley was mad at the couple because he thought they owed his family money. Flatt was given a reduced sentence for his testimony against Henley and served five years of a 25-year prison sentence. It was the 1st lethal injection in Tennessee since 2007. Henley becomes the 1st condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Tennessee and the 5th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 2000. Henley becomes the 8th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1144th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.