Alabama Man Executed for 1991 Murder of Woman

Alabama Man Executed for 1991 Murder of Woman
Willie B. Smith III. Alabama Department of Corrections via AP
The Associated Press
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ATMORE, Ala.—An Alabama man who avoided execution in February was put to death Thursday for the 1991 murder 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.