Luke williams death row

Luke Williams was executed by the State of South Carolina for the murders of a mother and her son. According to court documents Luke Williams attempted to cover up the double murder by staging a car crash and setting the vehicle on fire however authorities would soon learn that Williams had murdered his wife and twelve year old son: Linda, and their year-old son, Shaun.

Without opening his eyes or flinching more than a small facial muscle, Luke Williams was executed Friday night, 18 years after he killed his wife and son. The year-old chose not to make a final statement before he was administered the drug cocktail that would kill him. Williams lay motionless on the steel table in the death chamber.

He was strapped to the table with his left arm stretched out to the side for the needles that carried the drugs into his body. The tubes carrying the drugs flinched slightly as the liquid began flowing at 6 p. Within seconds Williams eye lids lightly fluttered and lips parted slightly as he appeared to snore. By p. At p. A few minutes later the official checked again and summoned a doctor who check his pupils and heartbeat.

The doctor nodded at the prison officials who then pronounced him dead at p.

Luke Williams, 56, was put to death by lethal injection.

Williams was convicted on killing his wife Linda, 39, and their year-old son Shaun in June Linda had been beaten to death. Shaun was strangled. Their bodies were doused with gasoline and set afire in the family van, which was driven into a tree in the Sumter National Forest in Edgefield County. Police said it was a botched attempt to make their deaths look like an accident.