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Alan Willett (June 27, 1947 – September 8, 1999) was executed at age 52 for the 1993 murders of his 13-year-old son, Eric, and his mentally disabled brother, Roger Willett, in Johnson County,
Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...
. Willett's daughter Ruby Ann Willett and another son, Jonathan, survived the attack.


Murders

Alan Willett was sentenced to death for convictions in the 1993 Johnson County killings of his 13-year-old son, Eric, and his mentally disabled brother, Roger. Alan Willett's daughter and another son survived the attack. Willett said he wanted to die and waived his right to post-conviction remedies.


Execution

Willett's last meal was beef jerky, barbecue-flavored potato chips, onion dip, garlic dip, buttered popcorn, and Pepsi. Mark Gardner was also executed by the state of Arkansas on the same day for the unrelated murders of Joe Joyce, Martha Joyce, and Sara McCurdy. Gardner was executed first because he had a lower inmate number (SK901) than Willett (SK930). The injection of a lethal drug was administered to Willett at 9:02 p.m. CDT, and he was pronounced dead at 9:16. Willett made no last statement. Willett was the 4th condemned inmate to be put to death in 1999 in
Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...
and the 21st person executed by the state of Arkansas since ''
Furman v. Georgia ''Furman v. Georgia'', 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a landmark criminal case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and const ...
'', , after new capital punishment laws were passed in Arkansas and that came into force on March 23, 1973. He was also the 570th person executed overall since the United States resumed executions on January 17, 1977.


See also

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Capital punishment in Arkansas Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Since 1820, a total of 505 individuals have been executed. According to the Arkansas Department of Correction, as of September 10, 2024, a total of 26 men were under a sente ...
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Capital punishment in the United States In the United States, capital punishment (also known as the death penalty) is a legal penalty in 27 states (of which two, Oregon and Wyoming, do not currently have any inmates sentenced to death), throughout the country at the federal leve ...
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List of people executed in Arkansas The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Arkansas since 1976, when the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in the United States. 31 people have been executed in Arkansas since 1976: 30 males and 1 female ( Christina ...
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List of people executed in the United States in 1999 Ninety-eight people, all male, were executed in the United States in 1999 in twenty states, 94 by lethal injection, 3 by electrocution, and one by gas chamber. With ninety-eight executions carried out, 1999 remains the year with the highest number ...


References


Papal Appeal for Men on Death Row Sent to Arkansas Governor
from the United States conference of Catholic Bishops
The Morning news of Arkansas: “Gardner, Willett are put to death”
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