USA - Texas. Lee Taylor, 32, white, was executed

Lee Taylor, 32, white, was executed. Taylor used an ice-pick-like weapon made in prison to stab fellow inmate Donta Greene, black, in 1999 in what the Texas Department of Criminal Justice describes as a fight stemming from racial tension. Taylor said shortly before he died that he was acting in self-defense. At the time of the stabbing at the northeast Texas prison, Taylor was serving a life sentence for an aggravated robbery in which an elderly man died. Taylor was the fifth inmate executed in Texas this year. This execution brought to 22 the number of people put to death in the United States so far this year.