Alvie Hale was executed by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of William Perry
According to court documents Alvie Hale would kidnap William Perry and demanded that his family pay a large ransom. The money drop was set up and Alvie Hale would grab the money and flee however he was chased down by the FBI soon after. When authorities searched his home they found the body of William Perry who had been shot multiple times
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Alvie Hale would be executed by lethal injection on October 18 2001
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Alvie Hale was executed on October 18 2001
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Nearly two decades after he sought to trade a man’s life for money, convicted murderer Alvie James Hale was executed Thursday night at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
Hale, 53, was pronounced dead at 9:24 p.m. after being injected with a lethal mix of drugs.
Hale was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Tecumseh banker William Jeffrey Perry in 1983. Hale kidnapped Perry, 24, and tried to extort $350,000 from his parents, who were officers at the bank where Perry worked.
Hale thanked his attorneys and asked those close to him to remember him.
“I want to say goodbye to my family and friends,” he said. “I want to thank them for being there for me. Watch what you see here and remember it and go tell somebody.”
He also thanked Ronnye Sharp – Perry’s sister – for being his friend. Perry’s relatives, while still grieving his death, were conciliatory toward Hale.
“It’s an empty victory,” Sharp said. “This does not bring my brother, Jeff Perry, back. I’ll be praying for Jim Hale’s soul tonight.”
Sharp said she’s had many conversations with Hale over the years. She has also spoken with his daughter, Jamie, and helped her and Hale reconcile.
“He was happy today, and he’s been happy this past month,” Sharp said. “I told him I think this was God’s gift to him.”
Perry’s mother, Joan Perry, also expressed sympathy for Hale. But forgiving has been hard.
“I wish I could forgive Jim Hale for this,” she said. “I’m working on it.”
Perry’s body was found at Hale’s father’s home, wrapped in a black tarpaulin and crammed into a storage tank. He’d been shot five times, twice in the head. The head shots came from Hale’s father’s .38 caliber revolver.
Hale had a bad history with the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Tecumseh, where Perry worked. He’d defaulted on two loans there.
Hale first tried to kidnap Shawnee resident Brenda Allison the day before he abducted Perry. The attempt failed.
On Oct. 11, 1983, he came to Perry’s home and kidnapped him. A witness told police that she saw Hale and Perry, and that Perry had cried out for help and was holding his side as if in pain.
One of Perry’s gunshot wounds was in his lower abdomen.
Hale later phoned Perry’s family, instructing them how and when to deliver the money. The parents complied, but FBI agents were watching the money exchange. Agents caught Hale after a car chase that eventually ended in downtown Oklahoma City.
When they caught him, Hale was clutching a packet of $100 bills. Hale claimed that other people were involved in the kidnapping and that he was not the triggerman. His assertions won him a temporary stay of execution earlier this year, but his appeals were ultimately exhausted. His last appeal, a request for a stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court, was rejected Wednesday.
Sharp said she thinks others were involved in her brother’s death, but said she doesn’t know who they might be.
Sharp said faith in God has helped her family cope with Jeff Perry’s death. She said his murder has important lessons for people to learn.
“What killed my brother was materialism, greed and violence,” Sharp said. “Make yourselves right with God. Get your priorities right.”
Hale was the 16th person executed in Oklahoma this year. The state has seen a record number of executions this year, with the next highest number, 14, seen in 1933.
Two more executions – those of Lois Nadean Smith and Sahib Al-Mosawi – are scheduled for Dec. 4 and 6, respectively.
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2001/10/19/killer-executed-in-bankers-murder/62126593007/