On this day, April 22, in 1983, John Louis Evans was executed by electric chair in a killing that took three electrical jolts and 14 minutes before he finally died.
Evans was the first Alabama inmate in 20 years to be killed by “Yellow Mama,” the chair made by prison inmates in 1927.
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