Executed
Billy Don Alverson
Billy Don Alverson was executed by the state of Oklahoma on January 6, 2011, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. A Department of Corrections spokesman said he was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m., after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal and the state Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency. In his final words he told the victim's family he was sorry and asked for forgiveness, and he told his own family, "I'm alright."
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesman (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.