Walter Moody
Walter Moody | |
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Moody in a 2017 prison photograph | |
| Born | March 24, 1935 Rex, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | (aged 83) Holman Correctional Facility, Alabama, U.S. |
| Other names | Roy Moody |
| Criminal status | Executed by lethal injection |
| Spouse(s) | Hazel Moody (unknown–1972) Susan McBride |
| Convictions | Federal Possessing a bomb Alabama Capital murder |
| Criminal penalty | Federal 5-year term (bomb possession) (October 19, 1972) Life imprisonment (murders) (August 21, 1991) Alabama Death (February 10, 1997) |
| Details | |
| Victims | (1) Hazel Moody (injured) (2) Judge Robert S. Vance Sr. (murdered) (2) Helen Vance (injured) (3) Robert E. Robinson (murdered) |
| Date | (1) May 7, 1972 (2) December 16, 1989 (3) December 18, 1989 |
Date apprehended | July 13, 1990 |
Walter Leroy Moody Jr. (March 24, 1935 – April 19, 2018) was an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to death and executed in Alabama for the 1989 letter bomb murder of Robert S. Vance, a U.S. federal judge serving on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
When Moody was executed by lethal injection in April 2018, he became the oldest death row inmate to be executed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.