The Nation : Mother Sees Son Executed

Convicted killer Roosevelt Green, insisting he was innocent, was executed in Georgia’s electric chair with his mother watching. Green’s mother, Annie B. Green, was among the 14 witnesses who saw the 28-year-old black former migrant worker put to death for the 1976 slaying of a white college coed. Prison spokesman Fred Steeple said to his knowledge, no mother had ever witnessed her child’s execution in Georgia. He said Green had formally requested his mother witness the execution and warden Ralph Kemp had agreed. Green was convicted twice of killing 18-year-old college student Theresa Carol Allen, who was abducted from a convenience store where she worked.