Tennessee inmate Stephen West, who was convicted of fatally stabbing a woman and her daughter in 1986, was executed on Thursday, Aug. 15, via the electric chair, said officials.
West was pronounced dead at 7:27 p.m., said the Tennessee Department of Correction.
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