A convicted sex offender who confessed to killing his 12-year-old stepdaughter has been executed for the 2002 killing.
Gerald Bordelon was put to death Thursday evening by injection at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. The 47-year-old waived his right to appeal the death sentence.
Angola prison warden Burl Cain lists Bordelon's official time of death as 6:32 p.m.
Bordelon strangled Courtney LeBlanc in 2002 after kidnapping her from her home in Livingston Parish at knifepoint and forcing her to perform oral sex on him. Bordelon led police to her body in a wooded area by the Amite River, about 20 miles from Baton Rouge.
He gave a taped confession and was convicted of the murder in 2006.
Bordelon's execution was Louisiana's 1st since 2002. No other executions are scheduled.
Bordelon becomes the 28th condemned inmate to be put to death in Louisiana since the state resumed capital punishment in 1983.
Bordelon becomes the 3rd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1191st overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.
Sources: Associated Press & Rick Halperin, January 8, 2010
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