From the Trussville Tribune staff reports
MONTGOMERY — Last night, Walter Leory Moody, Jr. became the oldest inmate to be executed, according to the New York Times. Moody, who was 83, was put to death via lethal injection and was pronounced at 8:42 p.m. on Thursday night. He had been convicted of murder by using mail bombs, namely that of an Alabama judge and a Georgia lawyer.
Moody’s execution took place at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall commented on the execution, saying that justice had been served in the case.
“Nearly 30 years ago, 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert Vance was brutally slain when a pipe bomb sent to his Birmingham home exploded,” he said. “Walter Leroy Moody was convicted of Judge Vance’s murder in both federal and state courts. Even though he was also convicted of a similar pipe bomb death of a Georgia attorney, Moody has spent the better part of three decades trying to avoid justice. Tonight, Mr. Moody’s appeals finally came to a rightful end. Justice has been served.”
In 1991, Moody was convicted in the murder of U.S. 11th Circuit Court Appeals Judge Robert S. Vance as well as the murder of Robert E. Robinson, a civil rights lawyer from Georgia.
U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town made a similar comment on justice being done for the murders.