Lethal injections by a single dose of pentobarbital were carried out in Georgia and Missouri without a hitch and another execution is scheduled Wednesday in Florida
After the Supreme Court turned down a last minute appeal, Marcus Wellons, 59, was executed Tuesday by the State of Georgia for the 1989 rape and murder of India Roberts, his 15-year-old neighbor in suburban Atlanta.
John Winfield, 46, was executed by the State of Missouri after the Supreme Court turned down his last minute appeal. According to the Associated Press, Winfield had been dating Carmelita Donald on and off for several years and fathered two of her children. She began dating another man. One night in 1996, in a jealous rage, Winfield showed up outside Donald's apartment in St. Louis County and confronted her, along with two friends of hers. He shot all three women in the head. Arthea Sanders and Shawnee Murphy died. Donald survived but was blinded.
John Ruthell Henry, 63, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday night by the State of Florida for the 1985 murder of his estranged wife and her five-year-old son from a previous marriage. Henry had previously pleaded no contest to second-degree murder for fatally stabbing his common-law wife, Patricia Roddy, in 1976, and was on parole when he killed his estranged wife and her son. His attorneys are appealing on grounds that Henry is mentally ill and intellectually disabled.
Florida uses a three-drug combination of midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride. When asked if he was concerned about the execution in light of the botched execution by Oklahoma of Clayton Lockett, Gov. Rick Scott replied, "I focus on making sure that we do things the right way here."
UDATE: John Ruthell Henry was executed Wednesday after the Supreme Court turned down a last-second appeal in which his attorneys argued he was mentally incapable of understanding his death sentence.
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