Man executed in US state of Delaware for 1992 axe murder

A 38-year-old man convicted of killing a woman with an axe during a burglary nearly two decades ago has been executed in the state of Delaware’s first death sentence since 2005.

Robert Jackson III was put to death by lethal injection at the James T Vaughn Correctional Centre in Smyrna. Before he was executed, he was asked if he wanted to say any last words. Jackson lifted his head, searched the window between the execution chamber and the witnesses, and asked if the two children of his victim Elizabeth Girardi were watching.