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Alabama kills

By cdw

via the AP: An Alabama death row inmate has been executed for the 1990 killing of a mother of six whose throat was slashed with a pocketknife. Willie McNair was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. Thursday after being given a lethal injection at Holman Prison near Atmore. The 44-year-old man was condemned for the stabbing death of Ella Foy Riley, a 68-year-old retired textile worker. Court records show Riley was stabbed to death in her Abbeville home after refusing to give $20 to McNair, who was described as a cocaine addict. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block the execution of McNair, who had spent nearly 18 years on Alabama’s death row. His was the fourth execution in Alabama this year and the first since April 16. There are 205 inmates on Alabama’s death row...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 14, 2009 (boomark / email).