US government executes killer obsessed with witchcraft

TERRE HAUTE: The US government on Tuesday executed a former soldier who said an obsession with witchcraft led him to kill a Georgia nurse he believed had put a spell on him. William Emmett LeCroy, 50, was pronounced dead at 9:06 pm EDT after receiving a lethal injection at the same US prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where five others have been executed i n 2020 following a 17-year period without a federal execution. Lawyers had asked President in a petition to commute LeCroy's sentence to life in prison, saying that LeCroy's brother, Georgia State Trooper Chad LeCroy, was killed during a routine traffic stop in 2010 and that another son's death would devastate their family....