Execution date set for Larry Williams

North Carolina Department of Public Safety

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North Carolina
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION
Michael F. Easley, Governor Theodis Beck, Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 26, 2001

Contact: Tracy Little
Director of Public Information
(919) 716-3700

EXECUTION DATE SET IN WILLIAMS CASE

RALEIGH – Correction Secretary Theodis Beck has set April 27 as the execution date for Death Row inmate Larry Darnell Williams (#0442913). The execution is tentatively scheduled for 2 a.m.

Williams, 46, was convicted June 13, 1980 in Gaston County. He received the death sentence for the Feb. 21, 1980 murder of Gastonia convenience store employee Eric Joines.

A media tour at Central Prison is scheduled on Monday, April 23 at 10 a.m. This will be the only time the news media will be allowed to photograph the execution chamber and death watch area before the execution. Newspaper, television and radio reporters and photographers should be at Central Prison’s visitor center promptly at 10 a.m. Warden R.C. Lee will explain execution procedures. The session will last approximately one hour.

The reporters who plan to attend the media tour should call the Department of Correction Public Information Office at number above.

ATTENTION EDITORS: For more information about the death penalty, including selection of witnesses, visit the Department of Correction’s web site at www.doc.state.nc.us and click the link "The Death Penalty."