Man Executed for Killing Wife Decades Ago in Memphis

Don Johnson executed for killing wife decades ago in Memphis
Man Executed for Killing Wife Decades Ago in Memphis
People pray for Don Johnson at Riverside Seventh-Day Adventist Church, in Nashville, Tenn., on May 16, 2019. Mark Humphrey/AP Photo
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—A man convicted of killing his wife decades ago at a camping center he managed in Memphis prayed and sang hymns as he was put to death Thursday in Tennessee.

Don Johnson, 68, was executed via lethal injection inside a maximum-security Nashville prison for the 1984 suffocation of his wife, Connie Johnson.