An Alabama inmate was executed early Friday for killing a Roman Catholic nun in a cemetery where she had gone to pray.

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Cornelius Singleton, 36, died in Holman Prison's electric chair.Singleton was convicted in 1981 of beating and strangling Sister Ann Hogan in a Mobile cemetery where she went to pray on Nov. 12, 1977.

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