The United States executed two convicts "Diario La Capitale de Mar del Plata

WASHINGTON, USA.- A Tennessee man who killed his wife and another from Alabama who killed four people were executed by lethal injection.

Donnie Edward Johnson, 68, was convicted in 1984 of the murder of his wife Connie Johnson in Memphis, Tenn., By placing a plastic garbage bag in his throat and smothering him.

Michael Brandon Samra, 41 years old, was convicted in 1998 of having participated in the murder of Randy Duke, Duke's girlfriend, Dedra Mims Hunt, and six-year-old Hunt girls. and seven years.

Samra was 19 when the murders were committed in 1997 in Pelham, Alabama.

He committed the crimes with Mark, Duke's 16-year-old son, who was angry with his father because he had denied him the use of his truck.

Mark Duke was also sentenced to death, but his sentence was changed to life imprisonment after the US Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that people under the age of 18 at the time of the crimes should not be executed .

Samra's lawyers appealed, claiming that he was considered under 21 at the time, which was rejected by the Supreme Court.

They then asked the governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, to grant the pardon for the same reason, but she refused, saying her state "would not tolerate any lethal act."

In Tennessee, Johnson asked Governor Bill Lee to suspend his execution because he had been redeemed through Adventist religious practice while in prison.

Despite the support of the church and even the daughter of his victim, Lee refused.

So far, in 2019, the United States has carried out seven executions.