Alabama executes a murderer
John Louis Evans was a punk, a classic posturing punk. After his release from an Indiana prison, he and a buddy he met there went on a cross-country crime spree, Jimmy Cagneys writ small in convenience stores. In Mobile, Ala., on Jan. 5, 1977, they held up a pawnshop. As the owner, Edward Nassar, crawled on the floor, his two young daughters watching in horror, Evans shot him in the back, dead.
Evans never denied the details. Indeed, he told the jurors that if they did not condemn him to death...
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