2nd Inmate in Week Executed in Georgia

Richard Tucker, who kidnaped, raped and murdered a nurse while on parole in another killing, was executed Friday. He was the second Georgia inmate put to death in a week.

Tucker, 44, was electrocuted hours after the U.S. Supreme Court and the state Board of Pardons and Paroles refused to stay the execution. He died at 7:23 p.m., said John Siler, a Department of Corrections spokesman.

Tucker was convicted of the 1978 murder of Edna Sandefur, 50, of Albany, who was in Macon to visit her critically ill mother. Six months earlier, Tucker had been released from prison after serving 14 years for stabbing an aunt to death with a pair of scissors.