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An Alabama man who avoided execution in February has been put to death for the 1991 killing of a woman abducted during a robbery and then shot in a cemetery.

Willie B. Smith III, whose execution was delayed in February, was put to death Thursday in Alabama for a 22-year-old woman’s murder three decades ago.

Willie B. Smith III, 52, will receive a lethal injection at 6 pm Thursday at a southwest Alabama prison after avoiding his execution in February because his pastor wouldnt be present.

CLEMMONS — It’d been more than a week since Robert Wiley’s pizza restaurant got torched. A slab of particle board covered the broken glass where someone had smashed a hole in a window to toss a Molotov cocktail inside. Ubiquitous yellow crime scene tape, strung around the outside of Pie Guys’ Pizza and More by investigators last week, still fluttered in the March breeze. A mountain of work looms — six, maybe seven weeks’ worth — before Wiley can reopen. “...

Pie Guys and More at 3425 Kinnamon Village in Clemmons is closed after a fire Feb. 24.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Two days before Willie Smith was scheduled to die, Pastor...

US execution halted after court agrees pastor should be present Alabama case is latest in series of legal fights over personal spiritual advisers at executions Sat, Feb 13, 2021, 14:52 File image shows an execution chamber at a prison in Texas. The lethal injection of Willie B Smith III was called off by Alabama following a US supreme court ruling. Photograph: Getty Images   An Alabama inmate has won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection after the US Supreme Court said the state mus...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate won a reprieve from a planned lethal injection...

The high court said Alabama had to let Willie B. Smith III have his pastor in the chamber when he was put to death. Alabama insists non-prison personnel should be kept out for security reasons.

The high court said Alabama had to let Willie B. Smith III have his pastor in the chamber when he was put to death. Alabama insists non-prison personnel should be kept out for security reasons.