US executes its 500th convict

Sunday 20 December 1998 00:02 GMT

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US executes its 500th convict

The United States has carried out its 500th execution since the Supreme Court lifted a ban on capital punishment in 1976. Andrew Lavern Smith died by injection in South Carolina for killing his elderly cousins who refused to let him borrow their car.

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