USA - Texas. Cleve Foster, 48, white, was executed

Cleve Foster, 48, white, was executed.  He had been sentenced to death on Feb. 12, 2004 (see) in the Feb. 14, 2002 kidnapping, rape and shooting of Nyanuer “Mary” Pal, a 30-year-old immigrant from Sudan. 3 times last year the justices stopped his scheduled punishment, once when he was moments from being led to the death chamber (see JANUARY 11, JANUARY 18, and APRIL 5, 2011). Foster becomes the 9th condemned individual to be put to death this year in Texas and the 486th overall since the state resumed capital punishment on December 7, 1982. Foster becomes the 30th condemned individual to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1307th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.