Killer, 83, executed

An Alabama man convicted of the mail bomb slaying of a judge during a wave of terror in 1989 was executed by lethal injection yesterday, becoming the oldest prisoner put to death in the US in modern times. Walter Leroy Moody Jr, 83, made no last statement and did not respond when an official asked if he had any last words. Moody sent out four mail bombs in December 1989, killing the judge in Alabama and a black civil rights attorney from Savannah, Georgia. Two other bombs were intercepted and did not explode. Prosecutors described Moody as having an obsession with getting revenge on the American legal system. He committed additional package bombings to make it look like the Ku Klux Klan was behind the judge’s murder.