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June 9, 2017 / 7:25 AM

Alabama executes death row inmate Robert Melson

Robert Bryant Melson, 46, died by lethal injection late Thursday in Atmore, Ala. He was convicted of three murders during a 1994 restaurant robbery, and was placed on the state's death row after his involvement in a 1999 killing of a prison inmate. Photo courtesy of the Alabama Department of Corrections

Robert Bryant Melson, 46, died by lethal injection late Thursday in Atmore, Ala. He was convicted of three murders during a 1994 restaurant robbery, and was placed on the state's death row after his involvement in a 1999 killing of a prison inmate. Photo courtesy of the Alabama Department of Corrections

June 9 (UPI) -- Alabama executed Robert Bryant Melson by lethal injection at a correctional facility near Atmore, the state's department of corrections announced.

Melson, 46, was convicted in 1996 for three homicides during a 1994 robbery of a restaurant. He received life imprisonment for those crimes, but was sentenced to death for his participation in the 1999 murder of a prison inmate.

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The Alabama Supreme Court declined to intervene in Melson's execution on Thursday evening and within an hour, he was given the three-drug execution protocol. He did not offer a final statement or request a final meal, and was pronounced dead at 10:27 p.m., the Alabama Department of Corrections announced.

Department Commissioner Jeff Dunn said in a statement that the execution was performed without complications.

It was the second execution in Alabama in two weeks.

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