Man Who Paid for His Wife’s Death Is Executed in Alabama
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ATMORE, Ala. — A man who hired two men to kill his pregnant wife was executed early Friday in Alabama’s electric chair after he prayed and asked her family for forgiveness.
“If this is what it takes for there to be healing in their lives, so be it,” said Larry Gene Heath.
Heath, 40, made no final attempt to appeal his sentence for the 1981 slaying of Rebecca Heath, who was nine months pregnant.
Prosecutors said Heath, secretly engaged to another woman, got his 21-year-old wife to cosign a $2,000 loan, then used the money to pay for her murder.
The men hired by Heath were convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
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