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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 6, 2019

Leroy Hall Jr. was executed by electric chair last night at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, Nashville Public Radio reports. He was convicted of murder nearly three decades ago for killing his estranged girlfriend. A last-minute appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court early yesterday evening was denied, according to the Tennessean. Hall’s attorneys had attempted to delay his execution by arguing he was deprived of his constitutional rights because a juror failed to disclose during jury selection that she had been raped and abused by her ex-husband.