Georgia on Wednesday carried out its first execution of 2017, putting to death a man convicted of murder more than 20 years ago.

J.W. “Boy” Ledford Jr. was put to death by lethal injection at 1:17 a.m. Wednesday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. The 45-year-old was convicted of the 1992 murder of his 73-year-old neighbor, the physician who had delivered him when he was born.