Alabama Executes Man Who Murdered Widow : Man Who Killed Widow and Stole Her Gifts Executed
A man who killed a widow and stole her Christmas presents was executed in Alabama’s electric chair early Friday as inmates in nearby cells protested and one yelled: “Murderers, murderers.”
Michael Lindsey, 28, was pronounced dead by two doctors at Holman Prison near Atmore. The execution was the fourth in Alabama and the 111th in the nation since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to resume use of the death penalty in 1976.
Lindsey was sentenced to death for the 1981 stabbing and shooting death of Rosemary Zimlich Rutland, 64, of Mobile.
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