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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 wouldn't 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. “I’ve been on the phone with my insurance company for three straight days,” he said Thursda...

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