US carries out second execution in a week, killing man lawyers say had dementia

Wesley Ira Purkey spoke out against capital punishment before receiving lethal injection in Indiana The United States on Thursday carried out its second federal execution this week, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers contended he had dementia and was unfit to be executed. Wesley Ira Purkey was put to death at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.