USA - Texas. Dale Devon Scheanette, 35, black, was executed today.

Dale Devon Scheanette, 35, black, was executed today. He was sent to death row for the Christmas Eve 1996 slaying of Wendie Prescott, 22, and charged but not tried for killing Christine Vu, 25, 3 months earlier, and blamed for the rapes of at least five other women. Scheanette becomes the 7th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas and the 430th overall since the state resumed capital punishment on December 7th, 1982. Scheanette becomes the 10th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1146th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.