In September 1994, 23-year-old Orlando Hall ran a marijuana trafficking operation in Arkansas. That month he and 21-year-old Bruce Carnell drove to Arlington, Texas to confront a man Hall believed had stolen $5,000 from him. At the man's apartment Hall and Carnell encountered his16-year-old sister who was home alone. When Lisa Rene refused Hall and his accomplice entry they broke into the apartment and kidnapped her. In the car on their way back to Arkansas, Orlando Hall and Bruce Carnell raped Lisa Rene. At a hotel in Pine Bluff, Arkansas the men, over at two day period, continued to rape and torture her.
From the hotel in Pine Bluff, Orlando Hall and Bruce Carnell drove the victim to a nearby park where they dug a grave, hit their victim with a shovel then buried her alive.
Because the Lisa Rene kidnapping involved the crossing of the Texas/Arkansa state lines the case was handled as a federal kidnapping offense, a death penalty crime when the kidnapped person is harmed or killed.
Following the kidnapping convictions of Hall and Carnell in1996 federal judges sentenced the men to death.
In 2019, because Bruce Carnell had an I.Q. of 69, a federal judge reduced his sentence to life.
On November 19, 2020, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene, Orlando Hall was executed by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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