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  • Alabama man who avoided earlier execution date put to death

    10/21/2021 8:16:02 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 33 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | October 21, 2021 | By KIM CHANDLER
    ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who avoided execution in February was put to death Thursday for the 1991 killing of a woman who was abducted during a robbery and then shot in a cemetery. Willie B. Smith III, 52, received a lethal injection at a prison in southwest Alabama. He was pronounced dead at 9:47 p.m. local time. Smith was convicted of kidnapping and murdering 22-year-old Sharma Ruth Johnson in Birmingham. Prosecutors said Smith had a shotgun when he abducted Johnson in October 1991 from an ATM location in the Birmingham area. He withdrew money using her bank...