Emmanuel Hammond (45) was executed by lethal injection in Georgia on Tuesday, for the 1988 murder of an Atlanta preschool teacher.
The execution was briefly halted by a last minute appeal by Hammond's lawyers which questioned the legality of the state using execution drugs which they said came from a company operating out of the back of a London driving school. In the midst of a nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental, part of the three-drug lethal cocktail used by most death penalty states, Hammond's lawyers sought more information as to where the state obtained the drug.
However, state and federal courts turned down the appeals and Hammond was pronounced dead in the state prison in Jackon at 11:39pm.
The execution is the first to be carried out in Georgia in 2011, and the 4th so far this year in the United States.
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