Eseguite due condanne in Texas e Oklahoma

Alvin Goodwin, 37 anni, condannato alla pena capitale per omicidio, � stato messo a morte mediante iniezione letale alle 2 italiane nel carcere di Huntsville, in Texas. Egli � la 241a persona ad essere messa a morte in quello stato dopo la ripresa delle esecuzioni capitali nel 1982. Poche ore dopo, un'altra condanna a morte � stata eseguita in Oklahoma, a Mcalester: Diom Athanasius Smallwood, 31 anni, condannato alla pena capitale per aver bastonato una donna di 68 anni prima di bruciarla viva, � stato messo a morte mediante iniezione letale. La sua � la 32a esecuzione capitale dopo che l'Oklahoma ha reintrodotto la pena di morte nel 1977 ed ha ripreso le esecuzioni nel 1990. Quella odierna � la quarta di sette esecuzioni capitali previste questo mese.

Two inmates executed

By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press Writer

HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A parolee who took a man from his home and fatally shot him during a robbery attempt was executed by injection Thursday. In Oklahoma, a man was executed for killing his ex-girlfriend's adopted mother. Alvin Goodwin, 37, was the second inmate executed this year in Texas, by far the most active death penalty state.

Goodwin said goodbye in Gaelic and closed by saying ``all right, warden.'' He was pronounced dead seven minutes after the lethal drugs were injected. Goodwin, a former carpenter and press operator who had been on parole for burglary at the time of the killing, was convicted of breaking into the Conroe home of tool company worker Douglas Tillerson on Nov. 30, 1986, to steal his $600 Christmas bonus. When Tillerson told Goodwin and an accomplice, Billy Aitkens Jr., he didn't have the money, they took a video cassette recorder and some tapes and drove him to some woods, prosecutors said. Aitkens tried to shoot Tillerson, but his gun misfired and Goodwin fired the deadly shots, prosecutors said. Aitkens is serving a life sentence. At the Oklahoma