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MISSISSIPPI (USA): GARY CARL SIMMONS JR. EXECUTED
June 20, 2012: Gary Carl Simmons Jr., 49, white, was executed.
He was convicted in the Aug. 12, 1996 killing of Jeffery Wolfe, 21.
Simmons also was convicted of kidnapping and raping Wolfe's female friend and sentenced to 2 life terms on those charges. Court records say that Simmons planned the death and dismemberment because he didn't have the money to pay a debt he owed Wolfe for marijuana.
Simmons' former brother-in-law, Timothy Milano, also was convicted of killing Wolfe, and received a life sentence.
Authorities said Milano shot Wolfe, but Simmons planned the killing.
Simmons becomes the 6th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Mississippi, the 21st overall since Mississippi resumed capital punishment in 1983, the 22nd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1299th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977. (Sources: Associated Press & Rick Halperin, Gulf Live, Mississippi Press, Daily Mississippian Online, 20/06/2012)
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