Tennessee Executes Man who Killed Three in 1980

The man who spent almost thirty years on death row for killing three people while robbing a convenience store in Nashville in 1980 has been executed. The Tennessee Corrections Department reported that fifty-three-year-old Cecil C. Johnson Jr. was pronounced dead at 1:24 a.m. on Wednesday, at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. The victims of the robbery were the twelve-year-old son of the market owner, Bobby Bell Jr., and two men who were sitting in a cab outside.

Johnson had been a twenty-three-year-old kitchen worker at a hospital at the time. His father turned him in two days after the shootings. Johnson is the sixth person put to death in Tennessee since 2000.

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