The US state of Texas on Wednesday executed a man convicted of a particularly violent triple murder, who was the first to be granted respite due to the pandemic.
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John Hummel, a 45-year-old man, received a lethal injection in Huntsville Penitentiary and was pronounced dead at 6:49 p.m. local time. In 2009, he stabbed his pregnant wife and stepfather, then beat his five-year-old daughter to death with a baseball bat, before setting fire to their home in Fort Worth, in the Southern States. -United. According to prosecutors, he wanted to start a new life with another woman.
He should have been executed on March 17, 2020, but an appeal court had pushed back the deadline in extremis "
in view of the health crisis
".
The judges had pointed out that an execution required "
enormous resources
", namely dozens of prison guards, lawyers, witnesses, and so on.
likely to spread Covid-19.
In the process, all executions were suspended for months in the rest of the country.
Texas, the US state that applies the most capital punishment, resumed executions on May 19 to execute Quintin Jones, an African-American who had killed his grandmother.
So far this year, with the exception of Texas, only the federal government has carried out three executions, just before the departure of Republican President Donald Trump.
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