A blind prisoner convicted of killing his estranged girlfriend by setting her on
fire in her car was put to death Thursday in Tennessee's electric chair, becoming only the second inmate without sight to be executed in the U.S. since the reinstatement of the nation's death penalty in 1976.
Lee Hall, 53, was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. at a Nashville maximum-security
prison, corrections officials said.
Hall was already strapped into the electric chair when the curtains were raised for the witnesses — which included family, attorneys and reporters.