The main thing about Moody was how he played games with the FBI. He had a plane and would drive to the airport and taxi the plane, then just get back I his car. Every time the Fed's thought he was about to leave the Country. The other thing was the fellow the FBI tried to tie this crime too. I think he had a business in Enterprise. They constantly harassed that guy, searched his business and drained his pond looking for something to tie him to the crime. Does anyone remember that man's name and where he was from? If I remember correctly they destroyed his life and business and never found anything. The judge Moody murdered has a son now in Jefferson County that is a Democrat. Robert Vance Jr, running for Chief Justice for Alabama.Moody's grudge was because he had a conviction 1972 for a pipe bomb. That conviction kept him from practicing law. In 1972 Moodys wife opened a package she found on the kitchen table. It injured her severely and was intended for a car dealer that had repossessed Moody's car. I think this whole affair is disgraceful, Moody deserved a swift punishment, not to be allowed to live off taxpayers since 1997. In 2015 Moody was involved in a Ponzi scheme from prison. Milking money from the elderly from inside prison.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate convicted of the mail-bomb slaying of a federal judge during a wave of Southern terror in 1989 was executed by lethal injection Thursday, becoming the oldest prisoner put to death in the U.S. in modern times.

Walter Leroy Moody Jr., 83, was pronounced dead at 8:42 p.m. following an injection at the Alabama prison at Atmore. He had no last statement and did not respond when an official asked if he had any last words shortly before the chemicals began flowing.

Authorities said Moody sent out four mail bombs in December of 1989, killing Judge Robert S. Vance, a member of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Alabama and Robert E. Robinson, a black civil rights attorney from Savannah, Georgia. Two other bombs, including one mailed to the NAACP office in Jacksonville, Florida, were intercepted and did not explode.

At his 1996 trial, prosecutors described Moody as a meticulous coward who killed Vance with murder by mail because of his obsession with getting revenge on the legal system, and then committed additional package bombings to make it look like the Ku Klux Klan was behind the judge's murder.

Moody became the oldest U.S. inmate put to death since executions resumed in the U.S. in the 1970s, according to the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center. His attorneys argued in court filings and a clemency petition to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey that his age and vein condition would make lethal injection more difficult.

The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily stayed execution plans Thursday evening to consider Moody's late appeals, but later lifted the stay without comment, allowing the execution to go forward.

Vance was at his kitchen table in Mountain Brook, Alabama, on Dec. 16, 1989, when he opened a package after a morning of errands and yard work.

The explosion ripped through the home near Birmingham, killing Vance instantly and severely injuring his wife, Helen. Prosecutors said Moody, who had attended law school, had a grudge against the legal system because the 11th Circuit refused to overturn a 1972 pipe-bomb possession conviction that prevented him from practicing law.

Moody was first convicted in 1991 in federal court and sentenced to seven life terms plus 400 years. He was later convicted in state court in 1996 and sentenced to death for Vance's murder.

Article.