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February 12, 2021
No execution: Courts side with inmate wanting pastor present Kim Chandler Updated: Tags: FILE-This undated file photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Willie B. Smith III. The Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 ordered that Smith III be put to death on Feb. 11, 2021 for the shotgun slaying of Sharma Ruth Johnson. The lethal injection of Willie B. Smith III was called off Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, when the U.S. Supreme Court maintained an injunction. The sta...
February 12, 2021
An Alabama inmate won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection after SCOTUS said the state must allow his pastor in the death chamber.
February 12, 2021
Alabama calls off execution after US Supreme Court rules inmate, 51, convicted of fatally shooting a cops sister in 1991 cannot be put to death without his pastor in the chamber Willie B. Smith III, 51, had been scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday night at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama The US Supreme Court ruled to stay Smiths execution hours before It ruled the state must allow Smiths personal pastor in the death chamber Alabama has maintained that non-pr...