Miss. executes former butcher who dismembered man
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Mississippi has executed a former grocery store butcher for dismembering a man and raping a woman he locked in a metal box.
Authorities say 49-year-old Gary Carl Simmons Jr. was pronounced dead at 6:16 CDT Wednesday. He was convicted of the Aug. 12, 1996 killing of Jeffery Wolfe, who was shot, dismembered and his body parts scattered in a bayou.
Simmons also was convicted of kidnapping and raping Wolfe's female friend and sentenced to two life terms on those charges. He was the sixth Mississippi inmate executed this year.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Simmons' former brother-in-law, Timothy Milano, also was convicted of killing Wolfe, who drove to Mississippi from Houston with the woman to collect a drug debt. Milano received a life sentence.
Authorities said Milano shot Wolfe, but Simmons planned the killing.