Just-Married Inmate Executed in Alabama
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ATMORE, Ala. — An inmate who was married last week in a prison ceremony was executed Friday in Alabama’s electric chair for the 1977 pipe-bomb killing of an 11-year-old girl.
Herbert Lee Richardson, 43, was convicted in the death of Rena Mae Callins of Dothan, who was killed on the porch of her home when she picked up a pipe bomb and it detonated. He contended that the bomb was not meant to explode but only to scare the girl’s family. The girl’s aunt had broken off a relationship with Richardson.
Richardson’s wife, Katie, some of her family members and a Montgomery minister visited the condemned man Thursday.
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