Lafevers executed

McALESTER, Oklahoma (AP) _ A 35-year-old man was executed by injection Tuesday night for killing an 84-year-old woman by beating her and setting her on fire. <br><br>Loyd Winford Lafevers was the seventh

Tuesday, January 30th 2001, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

McALESTER, Oklahoma (AP) _ A 35-year-old man was executed by injection Tuesday night for killing an 84-year-old woman by beating her and setting her on fire.

Loyd Winford Lafevers was the seventh Oklahoma inmate executed this month. Another execution is planned Thursday at Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

Lafevers and co-defendant Randall Cannon were accused of kidnapping Addie Hawley on June 24, 1985. They locked her in the trunk of a car and took her to a remote area, where they beat her, doused her with gasoline and set her and her car on fire. She was found near midnight lying nude and incoherent. She died the following day.

Attorney General Drew Edmondson said the attack on Hawley was part of a ``reign of terror in south Oklahoma City'' in which the two men attacked three other women.

Lafevers did not deny taking part in the kidnapping and a burglary of Hawley, but blamed the killing on Cannon, who is also on death row. Cannon blamed Lafevers.

They were convicted in a joint trial and given the death penalty, but the conviction was overturned when an appeals court ruled the two should have been tried separately. They were tried again separately, convicted in 1993 and again sentenced to death.

Colorado state Sen. Ken Chlouber, nephew of the murder victim, said Lafevers' execution was long overdue.

``This guy has fouled Oklahoma with every breath since he murdered my aunt,'' said Chlouber.

A total of 694 people have been executed in the United States since the Supreme Court lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in 1976.