McALESTER,
Oklahoma Oklahoma carried out its 13th execution of the year,
killing a man who murdered a woman in a hail of gunfire at the
request of her common-law husband and a friend.Vincent Allen
Johnson, a 42-year-old former oil field worker, said in a taped
confession he was expecting payment of dlrs 100,000 for killing
Shirley Mooneyham, 44.Before the lethal injection Tuesday night,
Johnson was asked if he had anything to say. He looked at the
ceiling and said: +No sir, I don't.; Authorities said Johnson,
firing from guns held in each hand, shot Mooneyham six times. Her
estranged common-law husband, Ted Holt, was acquitted on murder
charges. The friend, John Crain, was never brought to trial.During
Johnson's trial he maintained his innocence, but authorities
produced three earlier confessions, including one that was on
audiotape.A total of 716 people have been executed in the United
States since the Supreme Court lifted a moratorium on the death
penalty in 1976.
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