USA - Texas. Daniel Lee Lopez, 27, Hispanic, was executed.

Daniel Lee Lopez, 27, Hispanic, was executed. The lethal injection was carried out after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals from his attorneys, who disregarded Lopez's desire to die and disagreed with lower court rulings that found Lopez was competent to make that decision. On March 5, 2010 (see) a Nueces County jury sentenced Lopez after convicting him of killing police officer Stuart Alexander, 47, by running him over during a high speed police chase in March 2009. Lopez becomes the 10 inmate to be put to death this year in Texas, the 528th overall since Texas resumed capital punishment on December 7, 1982. Lopez becomes the 19th inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1413th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.