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Billy Wayne Waldrop Executed by Electric Chair

HeadlineJan 10, 1997

Condemned killer Billy Wayne Waldrop smiled and sang “Amazing Grace” just before he was executed in the electric chair early today for shooting a 72-year-old man during a 1982 arson and robbery. Just hours before Waldrop was killed, he professed his innocence and Christian faith on a radio station in Alabama.

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