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A DEATH rank assassin grimaced, twitched and gasped for breath in his final moments after receiving a lethal injection last night.
Orlando Hall, 49, was executed for kidnapping, gang-raping a 16-year-old girl, dousing her with gas and burying her alive 26 years ago.
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Hall’s execution was delayed for nearly six hours due to a last-minute court battle.
But he was pronounced dead at 11:47 p.m. in Terre Haute, Indiana, making him the eighth federal inmate to be executed this year.
As the lethal injection was administered, Hall raised his head, appeared to wince briefly, and shifted his feet.
He seemed to mutter to himself and opened his mouth twice, as if yawning.
Each time it was followed by short, labored breaths.
Hall then stopped breathing and soon after, an officer with a stethoscope entered the execution chamber to check for a heartbeat before Hall was officially declared dead.
In his last words before the injection, Hall had invited others to Islam, thanked those who supported him and said, “I’m fine.”
And after a statement recounting his horrible crime was read, Hall told his followers: “Take care. Tell my children that I love them.
HARROWING CRIME
Hall was convicted of kidnapping and killing Lisa Rene in 1994.
The killer, along with three other men, took the student from her home in Arlington, Texas, prosecutors said.
The revenge attack on Rene was to get revenge on the girl’s two brothers for a botched $ 5,000 marijuana deal.
Federal prosecutors said Hall was a marijuana dealer in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, who sometimes bought his drugs in the Dallas area.
He arrived in Dallas on September 24 and met two men at a car wash and gave them $ 4,700, with the expectation that they would return later with the marijuana.
Those two men were Rene’s brothers.
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Instead, Rene’s brothers claimed their car and money were stolen from a robber, and Hall and his accomplices assumed they were lying and were able to track down the address of the brothers’ apartment in Arlington, Texas.
When Hall and three other men arrived at the apartment, the brothers weren’t there, but Rene was home alone.
Retired Arlington detective John Stanton Sr. said Rene “was studying for a test and had his textbooks on the couch when these guys knocked on the front door.”
René called 911 and told the dispatcher, “They’re trying to break down my door! Hurry!”
The phone line was cut after a gasp was heard and a man said, “Who are you talking to on the phone?”
BURIED ALIVE
Rene was taken to a motel in Arkansas where she was repeatedly gang raped over the next 48 hours.
On September 26, Hall and two other men took Rene to the Lake Byrd Wilderness in Pine Bluff and covered his eyes with a mask.
They took her to a grave they had dug the day before before Hall placed a sheet over Rene’s head and then hit her with a shovel.
When she tried to run, another man and Hall took turns beating her with the shovel, before gagging her and dragging her to the grave, where she was doused with gasoline before the dirt covered her.
His body was not discovered until eight days later and it was later determined that Rene died of suffocation.
Medical examiners said she was alive when Hall and his friends buried her.
THE FAMILY DUEL
In a statement released by prison officials, Rene’s older sister, Pearl Rene, said the execution “marks the end of a very long and painful chapter in our lives.”
“My family and I are very relieved that this is over. We have been dealing with this for 26 years and now we have to relive the tragic nightmare our beloved Lisa went through, “he said.
“Ending this painful process will be an important goal for our family. This is just the end of the legal aftermath.
“The execution of Orlando Hall will never stop the suffering we continue to endure.”
Postponed
Hall’s execution makes him the eighth person to be executed in the United States this year, after a hiatus of roughly 20 years.
His death comes after a judge postponed the killer’s execution, which was originally scheduled for 6 p.m.
US District Judge Tanya S Chutkan ruled a temporary freeze on Hall’s execution hours before the scheduled execution time.
Chutkan said: “The court is deeply concerned that the government intends to proceed with an enforcement method that this court and the Court of Appeals have found violates federal law.”
But shortly after, the federal government formally requested that the postponement be canceled, and the Supreme Court quickly granted the request.
The order of the Supreme Court stated: “The request for annulment of the stay of execution presented to the President of the Supreme Court and forwarded by him to the Court is granted.
“And the injunction issued by the District Court for the District
of Columbia on November 19, 2020 becomes vacant. Judge Breyer, Judge Sotomayor and Judge Kagan would deny the request. “
A 6-3 vote decided the summons to overturn the district court’s ruling on Hall’s execution.
The superior court also denied three separate emergency requests from Hall seeking to postpone the execution.
The delay came as the Justice Department is trying to reinstate the federal death penalty as Donald Trump’s presidency draws to a close.
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President-elect Biden does not support the death penalty.
Trump restarted federal executions when he positioned himself as the 2020 law-and-order presidential candidate amid a wave of racially charged unrest in the US.
Last year, Attorney General Bill Barr announced the first federal execution dates in 16 years.
In October, Christopher Vialva, 40, was pronounced dead after receiving a lethal injection at Terre Haute Federal Prison, the same prison where Hall was to be executed.
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Justice Department officials announced last month that Lisa Montgomery will be executed by lethal injection on December 8.
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