WHAT HAPPENED: William Earl Lynd, 53, was executed on Tuesday for kidnapping his live-in girlfriend, 26-year-old Ginger Moore, and fatally shooting her three times in the face and head nearly 20 years ago.

MORATORIUM’S STATUS: It was the first execution since the U.S. Supreme Court decided in September to review Kentucky inmates’ claims that lethal injection is unconstitutional. The court ruled last month that Kentucky’s method of executing inmates, also used by about three dozen other states, is constitutional.

WHAT’S NEXT: The next scheduled execution is set for May 21 in Mississippi, where Earl Wesley Berry, 49, is scheduled to die by lethal injection for the 1987 slaying of Mary Bounds. Berry was convicted of kidnapping Bounds from the parking lot of the First Baptist Church in Houston, Miss., and beating her to death. Other executions are planned in June in Oklahoma and in August in Texas.