ARIZONA (USA): RICHARD STOKLEY EXECUTED

Richard Stokley, 60, white, was executed in Arizona for the July 8, 1991 rape and murder of two 13 year old girls, Mandy Meyers and Mary Snyder.
Co-defendant Randy E. Brazeal, who was 19 when the girls were killed, was released July 2, 2011 after serving the full 20 years prison system imposed under a plea agreement for 2nd-degree murder convictions. Stokley becomes the 6th inmate to be put to death this year in Arizona, the 34th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1992, the 42nd to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1319th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977. There is 1 more execution scheduled in the nation this year, in Florida, for December 11.