Oklahoma executes man for rape, murder of 2 elderly women

[December 11, 2013]  OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) — Oklahoma executed by lethal injection a 53-year-old man on Tuesday convicted of raping and killing two elderly women in 1986 and 1987 in their Oklahoma City homes.

Ronald Clinton Lott was pronounced dead at 6:06 p.m. Central Time (0006 GMT on Wednesday) at a state prison in McAlester, Oklahoma, state Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie said.

(Reporting by Heide Brandes; writing by Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)

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