Alabama Execution: Andrew Reid Lackey, 29, Executed For Murder Of Charlie Newman Depite Protests Inmate Was Mentally Ill [VIDEO]

On Thursday night at 6:25 local time Andrew Lackey, 29 was executed by the state of Alabama for the 2005 murder of World War II veteran Charlie Newman, 89.

Lackey was the first person executed in the state since 2011. On Halloween night 2005 Lackey went to the home of the elderly Charlie Newman, the grandfather of one of Lackey's close friends.

Apparently Newman's grandson had mentioned to Lackey his grandfather kept a vault filled with gold bars in his home. Lackey went to Newman's home with the intent to rob the man and can be heard on the 911 tapes asking Newman where his vault was.

The WWII veteran was able to call 911 before he was killed. On the tape Newman can be heard trying to calm Lackey; telling him to sit and pray with him.

Andrew Lackey had not yet exhausted all of his appeals when he wrote to the Alabama Supreme Court last year asking that they move forward with his execution.

The Equal Justice Initiative, a prisoners' rights group based in Montgomery tried to get Lackey's execution stopped, telling the Supreme Court the convicted killer was mentally ill.

The group argued that the judge who allowed Lackey's execution to move forward did not properly evaluate his mental state, claiming Lackey attempted suicide. An appeals court did not grant the group's motion to stay the execution.

Before Lackey was executed by lethal injection he declined to make any statement to the witnesses outside the death chamber. Lackey was then injected with a drug known as Pentobarbital, which caused his death.

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