Donnie Johnson of Memphis executed for 1984 murder of wife
People pray during a vigil for Donnie Johnson at Riverside Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Thursday, May 16, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Johnson was executed Thursday for suffocating his wife, Connie Johnson, in a Memphis camping center he managed in 1984. The vigil was held at the church where Johnson served as an elder while in prison, though he was never able to visit the church. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
The state of Tennessee executed Donnie Johnson of Memphis Thursday, 35 years after he murdered his wife, Connie, by stuffing a 30-gallon garbage bag down her throat.
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Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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