Posted on 03/18/2003 5:07:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:03 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) -- A decorated Gulf War veteran who claimed his exposure to Iraqi nerve gas caused him to rape and kill a female soldier was executed by injection Tuesday at a federal prison.
Louis Jones Jr., 53, died by injection at the U.S. Penitentiary near Terre Haute after President Bush and the U.S. Supreme Court refused his two final requests that they intervene.
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