In Tennessee, Sedley Alley was executed early this morning, becoming only the second person to be executed in the state in 45 years. The New York-based Innocence Project had called for Alley’s execution to be put off because the state had refused to allow DNA testing on crime scene evidence. Alley’s lawyers said they would continue to press for DNA testing that they believe will show an innocent man was put to death. Alley had been convicted on raping and murdering a young Marine named Suzanne Collins in 1985. A second prisoner on Tennessee’s death row named Paul Dennis Reid was also scheduled to be killed today but a federal judge halted that execution.