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.
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