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Oklahoma completes first execution of 2011

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this AP story, in Oklahoma an "inmate was executed Thursday for the murder of a convenience store worker found brutally beaten with a baseball bat almost 16 years ago." Here's more: Billy Don Alverson, 39, was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m. local time at Oklahoma State Penitentiary, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections said.  Alverson was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to die for the Feb, 26, 1995, death of 30-year-old Richard Yost, the night manager of a convenience store in Tulsa.  Yost's body was found bound and beaten on the blood-soaked floor of the store's cooler. Alverson was one of four men convicted of first-degree murder in Yost's death. Prosecutors have said Yost received 54 blows from the bat and all four men participated in the beating, although Alverson has said he never hit Yost...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 06, 2011 (boomark / email).