Orlando Cordia Hall, Murder, Arkansas 1994

Arlington, Texas – In a heinous crime, Orlando Cordia Hall and his accomplices kidnapped, raped, and murdered a 16-year-old girl in 1994. The victim, Lisa Rene, was an innocent bystander who answered the door at the Arlington home of a man Hall and his accomplices believed had reneged on a $4,700 drug deal.

After a failed drug transaction, Hall and his accomplices went to the Arlington home, where they kidnapped Lisa Rene at gunpoint. They then raped her in the car and drove her to a motel in Arkansas, where they raped her several more times. Hall and his accomplices took her to a park where they had dug a grave, beat her over the head with a shovel, soaked her with gasoline, and buried her alive.

On September 1994, Hall and his accomplices committed this horrific crime. In October 1995, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas found Hall guilty of kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence, which the court imposed.

Orlando Cordia Hall, 56, is scheduled for execution on November 19, 2020, at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana. Hall’s convictions and sentences were affirmed on appeal more than 20 years ago, and his initial round of collateral challenges failed nearly 15 years ago.

Hall’s execution is a significant development in the case of this child murderer, who is eligible for execution and not subject to a stay or injunction. Hall’s preliminary injunction from a federal district court in Washington, D.C., based on his challenge to the then-existing federal lethal-injection protocol was vacated by the district court on September 20, 2020.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has scheduled the execution of Orlando Cordia Hall, a federal death row inmate convicted of kidnapping, raping, and murdering a 16-year-old girl in 1994. Hall’s accomplices were also involved in the crime. The victim, Lisa Rene, was an innocent bystander who was kidnapped and murdered by Hall and his accomplices.

Orlando Cordia Hall, a resident of Arkansas, was sentenced to death for kidnapping resulting in death. The crime occurred on September 1994, and Hall was found guilty in October 1995. Hall’s execution is scheduled for November 19, 2020, at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana.