Doyle Williams was executed by the State of Missouri for a double murder
According to court documents Doyle Williams would rob the office of Dr. A. H. Domann and stole a number of prescription pads. Later that day Williams tried to forge the doctors signature and would be arrested at a pharmacy. Williams would then decide the only way to beat the case was to murder the doctor
Doyle Williams would murder Dr. A. H. Domann and then later murder Kerry Brummett for testifying against him
Doyle Williams would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Doyle Williams would be executed by lethal injection on April 10 1996
Doyle Williams Case
Doyle J. Williams, who spent more than 14 years on Missouri’s death row for killing two men, was executed Wednesday by lethal injection, authorities said. He was pronouced dead at 12:36 a.m.
Williams, 49, appealed the death sentence numerous times, but the Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution late Tuesday by a 5-4 vote. In St. Louis, about 60 miles northeast of Potosi Correctional Center where the execution took place, protesters held a candlelight vigil in hopes of a last-minute decision reversing the sentence. ‘Doyle has helped so many people in keeping the peace on death row and keeping people’s sanity so they could communicate effectively with their attorneys,’ said David Hemingway, one of Williams’ former defense lawyers. ‘Since he’s been therefor so long, he’s been a first-hand witness to the carelessness with which the death penalty has been inflicted on people,’ Hemingway said.
Hemingway and about 40 others gathered outside the Municipal Courts building in St. Louis about three hours before the sentence was to be imposed, holding signs protesting the death penalty. However, Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon said Williams had manipulated the legal system, delaying his ultimate penalty repeatedly since his conviction in 1981. Williams was convicted of killing two men who could have testified against him in court. He was sentenced to life in prison for the 1980 murder of Dr. A.H. Domann, who had not signed a prescription form Williams forged to obtain drugs.
He received the death penalty after a conviction for conspiring with a girlfriend and an accomplice in a burglary to kill Kerry Brummett, a witness who could have linked Williams to the burglary. Brummett was handcuffed and brutally beaten near the Missouri River, authorities said. He apparently ran into the river to escape and drowned.
Missouri is second only to Texas for the number of executions performed in the state, said Margaret Phillips of the Eastern Missouri Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Two people have been executed this year, and six death sentences were carried out in 1995, she said.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/04/10/Convicted-killer-put-to-death/6330829108800/
