Willie Clisby was executed by the State of Alabama for the murder of Fletcher Handley
According to court documents Willie Clisby would break into the home of Fletcher Handley and would beat the man to death with an axe before robbing the home
Clisby would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Willie Clisby would be executed via the electric chair on April 28 1995
Willie Clisby Case
A man who killed an acquaintance with an ax in a robbery was executed in the state’s electric chair early today.
As the scheduled 12:01 A.M. execution of Willie Clisby approached, inmates in the cells above the execution chamber at Holman Prison started banging on the walls. Mr. Clisby, 47, sat impassively in the chair and made no last statement.
Mr. Clisby was convicted of killing Fletcher Handley, 58, in a break-in at Mr. Handley’s home in Birmingham in 1979. The two men had worked together at a cemetery.
In their final appeals, Mr. Clisby’s lawyer’s argued that the electric chair was a cruel form of punishment. But Judge A. L. Edmondson of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit rejected the request for a stay of the execution
