A South Carolina man was executed by lethal injection for the killing nearly 10 years ago of an elderly security guard during an armored car robbery outside a rural bank, authorities said.
The sentence against Calvin Shuler (40) was carried out last night at the state's Lieber Correctional Institution, South Carolina Department of Corrections spokesman Josh Gelinas said.
Shuler was the 278th inmate executed in South Carolina's history, Gelinas said, adding that his death was witnessed by one attorney and a spiritual adviser but no family members.
There was no final statement from Shuler, Gelinas said.
Shuler was convicted of killing 77-year-old security guard James Brooks during a December 1997 armored car hijacking outside the First National Bank in Harleyville, South Carolina.
The state Supreme Court had unanimously upheld his conviction and death sentence in 2001.