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   TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A man convicted of kidnapping and raping a   
   16-year-old Texas girl before dousing her with gasoline and   
   burying her alive was executed Thursday, the eighth federal   
   inmate put to death this year after a nearly two-decade hiatus.   
      
   Orlando Hall, 49, was pronounced dead at 11:47 p.m. ET after   
   being given a lethal injection at the federal prison complex in   
   Terre Haute, Indiana. In his final words, Hall invited others to   
   Islam, thanked those who supported him and sought to reassure   
   them, saying, “I’m OK.” After a statement was read recounting   
   his crimes, Hall took one last opportunity to look to his   
   supporters and say: “Take care of yourselves. Tell my kids I   
   love them.”   
      
   The late-night execution came after the Supreme Court denied   
   last-minute legal challenges from Hall’s attorneys, who had   
   argued that racial bias played a role in his sentencing and had   
   also raised concerns about the execution protocol and other   
   constitutional issues.   
      
   As the drug was administered, Hall lifted his head, appeared to   
   wince briefly and twitched his feet. He appeared to mumble to   
   himself and twice he opened his mouth wide, as if he was   
   yawning. Each time that was followed by short, seemingly labored   
   breaths. He then stopped breathing and soon after, an official   
   with a stethoscope came into the execution chamber to check for   
   a heartbeat before Hall was officially declared dead.   
      
   Before the Trump administration resumed federal executions this   
   year, only three federal inmates had been executed in the   
   previous 56 years. Two other executions are scheduled for later   
   this year — though a judge on Thursday said one of them could   
   not be carried out before the end of the year — and president-   
   elect Joe Biden has not said if federal executions will continue   
   when he takes office.   
      
   Hall was among five men convicted in the abduction and death of   
   Lisa Rene in 1994.   
      
   Federal court documents said Hall was a marijuana trafficker in   
   Pine Bluff, Arkansas, who would sometimes buy his drugs in the   
   Dallas area. He arrived in Dallas on Sept. 24, 1994, met two men   
   at a car wash and gave them $4,700 with the expectation they   
   would return later with the marijuana. The two men were Rene’s   
   brothers.   
      
   Instead, the men claimed their car and the money were stolen in   
   a robbery. Hall and accomplices figured they were lying and were   
   able to track down the address of the brothers’ apartment in   
   Arlington, Texas.   
      
   When Hall and three other men arrived at the apartment, the   
   brothers weren’t there. Lisa Rene was home, alone.   
      
   “She was studying for a test and had her textbooks on the couch   
   when these guys came knocking on the front door,” retired   
   Arlington detective John Stanton Sr. said.   
      
   In a statement released by prison officials, her older sister,   
   Pearl Rene, said the execution “marks the end of a very long and   
   painful chapter in our lives.”   
      
   “My family and I are very relieved that this is over. We have   
   been dealing with this for 26 years and now we’re having to   
   relive the tragic nightmare that our beloved Lisa went through,”   
   she said. “Ending this painful process will be a major goal for   
   our family. This is only the end of the legal aftermath. The   
   execution of Orlando Hall will never stop the suffering we   
   continue to endure.”   
      
   Court records offer a chilling account of the terror her sister   
   faced.   
      
   “They’re trying to break down my door! Hurry up!” the victim   
   told a 911 dispatcher. A muffled scream was heard seconds later,   
   with a man saying, “Who you on the phone with?” The line then   
   went dead.   
      
   Stanton said the men smashed a sliding glass door to get inside   
   and immediately took off with Rene. Police arrived within   
   minutes but the men, and Rene, were already gone, said Stanton,   
   still wincing at the near-miss of thwarting the crime at its   
   onset.   
      
   “It was one that I won’t ever forget,” Stanton said. “This one   
   was particularly heinous.”   
      
   The men drove to a motel in Pine Bluff. Rene was repeatedly   
   sexually assaulted during the drive and at the motel over the   
   next two days.   
      
   On Sept. 26, Hall and two other men drove Rene to Byrd Lake   
   Natural Area in Pine Bluff, her eyes covered by a mask. They led   
   her to a gravesite they had dug a day earlier. Hall placed a   
   sheet over Rene’s head then hit her in the head with a shovel.   
   When she ran another man and Hall took turns hitting her with   
   the shovel before she was gagged and dragged into the grave,   
   where she was doused in gasoline before dirt was shoveled over   
   her.   
      
   A coroner determined that Rene was still alive when she was   
   buried and died of asphyxiation in the grave, where she was   
   found eight days later.   
      
   Crossing the Texas-Arkansas line made the case a federal crime.   
   One of Hall’s accomplices, Bruce Webster, also was sentenced to   
   death but the sentence was vacated last year because he is   
   intellectually disabled. Three other men, including Hall’s   
   brother, received lesser sentences in exchange for their   
   cooperation at trial.   
      
   Hall’s lawyers contend that jurors who recommend the death   
   penalty weren’t told of the severe trauma he faced as a child or   
   that he once saved a 3-year-old nephew from drowning by leaping   
   into a motel pool from a balcony.   
      
   Donna Keogh, 67, first met Hall 16 years ago when she and other   
   volunteers from her Catholic church set up a program to provide   
   Christmas presents for children of inmates at the Terre Haute   
   prison. They corresponded by email until days before his death.   
      
   Keogh said Hall had two sons, ages 28 and 27, and 13   
   grandchildren.   
      
   Hall turned his life around in prison, educating himself and   
   becoming an avid reader, Keogh said. She couldn’t understand the   
   value in executing him.   
      
   “My faith tells me that all life is precious and that includes   
   the lives on death row,” Keogh said. “I just don’t see any   
   purpose.”   
      
   Hall’s lawyer, Marcy Widder, released a statement after the   
   execution saying: “Tonight, the federal government took the life   
   of a man who spent the last quarter century repenting for his   
   role in the death of Lisa Rene and striving every day to become   
   a better father, brother, son, and human in honor of her memory.   
   The world was not made a better place because of his death;   
   rather, we are all diminished by our government’s ruthless   
   desire to kill, and its devaluing of hope and redemption.”   
      
   Five of the first six federal executions this year involved   
   white men; the other was Navajo. Christopher Vialva, who was   
   Black, was put to death Sept. 24 for killing an Iowa couple who   
   were visiting Texas in 1999.   
      
   Critics have argued that executing white inmates first was a   
   political calculation in a nation embroiled in racial bias   
   concerns involving the criminal justice system.   
      
   A September report by the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty   
   Information Center said Black people remain overrepresented on   
   death rows, including federal death row. The organization’s   
      
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