USA - Texas executed Larry Donnell Davis.

Texas executed Larry Donnell Davis. He had been convicted for orchestrating and taking part in the 1995 robbery and fatal stabbing of Michael Barrow, 26. Davis acknowledged he was at Barrow's home the day of the killing, but he insisted in a recent interview with The Associated Press he was not responsible for the fatal wounds. "They finished him," he said of his friends, who accepted plea deals for lesser sentences. In a confession to police, Davis said he tied Barrow's hands, held him down while an accomplice stabbed him and handed his accomplice the weapons. Davis becomes the 4th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas and the 409th overall since Texas resumed capital punishment on December 7, 1982. Davis becomes the 16th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1115th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977. (sources: Associated Press & Rick Halperin)