Death Row suffered one of the most debilitating botched executions in history when he was slowly burned to death over the course of 14 minutes.
John Louis Evans III was convicted of murder after confessing to a two-month long crime spree from December 1976 to January 1977, reports Daily Star.
He was the first Death Row convict to die by electric chair in the state of Alabama after the punishment was reintroduced. Evans admitted to 30 armed robberies, nine kidnappings and two extortion plots across seven US states - during which he and fellow convict Wayne Ritter stole from and then murdered pawn shop owner Edward Nassar.Despite Evans' confession, prosecutors reportedly rejected his guilty plea in a scheme to get him executed - which was.
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