Alabama executes death row inmate 30 years after murder conviction
Alabama executes death row inmate 30 years after murder conviction
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Alabama executes death row inmate 30 years after murder conviction
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.
Court halts execution of Alabama man in religious freedom case By (0) Willie Smith Jr. was sentenced to death in 1992 for the abduction, robbery and murder of Sharma Johnson, 22, in 1991. File Photo courtesy of the Alabama Department of Corrections Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction halting the lethal injection of an Alabama man unless the state allows him to have his spiritual adviser with him in the execution chamber. Willie Smith III, 52, is set to die by lethal injection Thursday at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore...