- Willie Brown Jr.
Willie Brown, Jr. (
November 24 ,1944 –April 21 ,2006 ), was sentenced to death onNovember 15 ,1983 by theMartin County, North Carolina Superior Court for theMarch 6 ,1983 murder of Vallerie Ann Roberson Dixon.Valerie Dixon, 29, was reported missing on
March 6 ,1983 from the Zip Mart (now Chicken Kitchen) inWilliamston, North Carolina where she worked the late-night to early-morning shift. She was found later; she had been shot six times in the back of the head. When police stopped Brown he had a pistol and a bag of money, from the Zip Mart, and he was also driving Dixon's car.After several last-minute attempts by his lawyers to stay his execution failed, Brown was put to death on
April 21 ,2006 at 2:00 a.m. and was pronounced dead at 2:11 a.m.See also
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List of individuals executed in North Carolina
*Capital punishment in the United States External links
* Loni Blandford. [http://www.journalnow.com/scripts/isapi_srun.dll/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137835507682&DPL=JvsIDSP7Dg0m5hcQJfsKFjvlCA0l4zs%3d&tacodalogin=yes Brown is Executed] . "Winston-Salem Journal" (
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