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Alabama Executes Death Row Inmate
March 16, 2018
Alabama death row inmate Michael Wayne Eggers, 50, was executed tonight by lethal injection at the William C. Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala. The execution was carried out at 6:54 p.m. Eggers was pronounced dead at 7:29 p.m.
Eggers was sentenced to death for the 2000 capital murder of his employerBennie Francis Murray, 67, in Walker County. Prosecutors said he admitted to strangling Murray during an argument.
His final words were, “no ma’am”, when Warden Cynthia Stewart asked him if he had a final statement.
Eggers had two family members, a spiritual advisor and two friends witness the execution. There were no witnesses for the victim.
Eggers has previously dropped his appeals asked the state to quickly schedule his execution.
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One Response to “Alabama Executes Death Row Inmate”
way to go alabama! down here in FLA (not lower alabama by a longshot) they tend to coddle murderers with life sentences and say, “oh, he got a bad trial”.