US government executes man convicted of killing teenager in 1994

A protester outside Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana (AP)

A 49-year-old man has been put to death in the US over the abduction and murder of a 16-year-old girl in Texas in 1994.

Orlando Hall’s death by lethal injection marked the eighth federal execution this year since the Trump administration revived a legal process that had been used just three times in the past 56 years.