Tuesday, September 16, 2008
JACKSON — Georgia’s longest-serving death row inmate was executed Tuesday in the slaying of his wife 34 years ago.
Jack Alderman was pronounced dead at 7:25 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson.
The 57-year-old Alderman was sentenced to die by lethal injection in the 1974 slaying of his wife, Barbara. He and an accomplice beat her with a crescent wrench and choked her at their Chatham County home before dumping her body in a creek. Prosecutors allege he wanted to collect $20,000 in life insurance money.
Alderman has been on death row for 33 years.
He had been scheduled for execution last October but a stay was issued to allow the U.S. Supreme Court to sort out constitutional questions surrounding lethal injection.
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
JACKSON — Georgia’s longest-serving death row inmate was executed Tuesday in the slaying of his wife 34 years ago.
Jack Alderman was pronounced dead at 7:25 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson.
The 57-year-old Alderman was sentenced to die by lethal injection in the 1974 slaying of his wife, Barbara. He and an accomplice beat her with a crescent wrench and choked her at their Chatham County home before dumping her body in a creek. Prosecutors allege he wanted to collect $20,000 in life insurance money.
Alderman has been on death row for 33 years.
He had been scheduled for execution last October but a stay was issued to allow the U.S. Supreme Court to sort out constitutional questions surrounding lethal injection.
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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