US: Inmate could become 1,000th executed since 1976

The fate of a convicted killer from North Carolina, set to become the 1,000th person executed in the US since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, rests today with federal appeals courts and the state’s governor.

Unless they intervene, 57-year-old Kenneth Lee Boyd will be put to death by lethal injection at 2am (7am Irish time) tomorrow, earning a man who shot and killed his estranged wife and her father an infamous place in American history.