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Orlando Hall Was Executed For Kidnapping, Raping, And Burying His Victim Alive. Not For Being Black
Orlando Hall was executed via lethal injection on Thursday night in Indiana. Mainstream news sources like The New York Times, People Magazine, and CNN choose to comment more on how he is the “eighth person executed [by the government] after a 17-year-hiatus” instead of on his heinous crimes.
By Luna Salinas4 min read
According to U.S. Department of Justice court documents, in 1994, “Hall and several accomplices ran a marijuana trafficking operation out of Arkansas. After a failed drug transaction involving $4,700, Hall and his accomplices drove to Arlington, Texas, home of a man they believed had stolen their money.”