Lynda Lyon Block
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Lynda Lyon Block (February 8, 1948 – May 10, 2002) was a convicted murderer executed in the U.S. state of Alabama for the October 4, 1993 killing of Police Sergeant Roger Lamar Motley in Opelika, Alabama.
Lyon shot Motley outside of a Wal-Mart shopping center in Opelika during an altercation between him and her husband. She claimed she was protecting her husband when she shot the officer. Witnesses stated that she was in a crouched marksman position when she fired her gun. Lyon was executed on May 10, 2002. As of 2002, Lyon was the last person executed in the Yellow Mama, Alabama’s electric chair.
Her husband was also found guilty of capital murder and was sentenced to death. Both opted to represent themselves legally in court. At the time of the shooting, Lyon and her husband, George Sibley, Jr., were on the run from Florida to escape sentencing for an unrelated offence. Sibley was executed by the state of Alabama on August 4, 2005, by lethal injection, at age 62.
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Categories: Crime biographical stubs | Executed people | Murderers | American criminals | 1948 births | 2002 deaths
