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Man who raped girl before burying her alive executed hours after judge says stop
murdered a girl has been executed hours after a judge ordered it not to go ahead amid claims of racial discrimination.Orlando Hall was put to death by lethal injection at 11.47pm local time yesterday, November 20, after being convicted for his role in the horrific 1994 abduction and killing of 16-year-old Lesa Rene.The Supreme Court overturned US District Judge Tanya Chutkan's request for the execution to be halted following claims that Hall, who is African American, was racially discriminated against by an all-white jury.In a ruling hours before the federal execution was scheduled to go ahead, she wrote: “The court is deeply concerned that the government intends to proceed with a method of execution that this court and the Court of Appeals