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Willie B Smith dead: Death row inmate executed for shooting cop's sister dead in 1991
Death row inmate Willie B. Smith III has been executed at Atmore prison via lethal injection despite an earlier plea to block the ruling.Smith was convicted of kidnapping and murdering a woman in Birmingham, USA, 30 years ago.Smith was sentenced to death by lethal injection after kidnapping 22-year-old Sharma Ruth Johnson, the sister of a police detective on October 27, 1991.Prosecutors said that Smith abducted Johnson at gunpoint from an ATM, stole $80 (£58) from her, and later took her to a cemetery where he shot her in the back of the head.Smith’s official time of death was 9:47 pm local time and he was executed at the William C.