EXECUTION #22

Jimmy Lee Dill
Executed April 16, 2009 06:16 p.m. by Lethal Injection in Alabama
22nd murderer executed in U.S. in 2009
1158th murderer executed in U.S. since 1976
3rd murderer executed in Alabama in 2009
41st murderer executed in Alabama since 1976
Summary:
Leon Shaw was assigned to a federal work-release facility in Birmingham on a drug conviction. During a drug transaction in a car, Shaw was shot in the back of the head by Dill with a .22-caliber handgun and lingered unconscious until his death nine months later.
Final/Special Meal:
Fried chicken, fried okra, a biscuit and a root beer.
Final Words:
"I just hope God's will be done and everybody finds the peace they need. I'm good."
The Execution
When the curtain opened to the execution room, Dill looked through large, brown-rimmed eyeglasses and waved at his two nieces in the witness room. He then turned his head to acknowledge the victim's wife and son in a separate room. Dill prayed with a chaplain who knelt beside him in his final minutes. Dill left a check for $1.26 to sister-in-law Carolyn Dill. He was pronounced dead at 6:16pm.