Oklahoma executes man for rape, murder of two elderly women

Reuters

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)