(Reuters) - Tennessee authorities on Thursday executed a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend by setting her ablaze in her car almost 30 years ago.
Lee Hall, 54, was executed by electric chair and declared dead at 7:26 p.m. Central Standard Time at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, said Tylee Tracer, a spokesman for the state's Department of Correction.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien and Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
