A man was executed in the electric chair early Friday for killing three people after he was refused permission to marry a 13-year-old girl.

The slayings came two years after Walter Hill was freed from prison for killing two other people.Hill, 62, was pronounced dead at 1:13 a.m.

The state Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court had rejected last-minute appeals.

Hill spent 20 years on death row - so long prosecutors and victims advocates had difficulty finding relatives of the people he killed in Bessemer.

A new Alabama law permits victims' relatives to view the execution, but none came forward in Hill's case.

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On Jan. 7, 1977, Hill fatally shot Willie Mae Hammock, 60, who refused to allow him to marry her 13-year-old daughter, Toni; Miss Hammock's stepbrother, John Tatum Jr., 36, and his wife, Lois Jean Tatum, 34.

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