The US Supreme Courtrejected the final appeal of Ray Cromartie, who was executed by lethal injection (MARK WILSON)

Washington (AFP) – The US state of Georgia has executed a man for the 1994 murder of a convenience store clerk, US media reported. 

Ray Cromartie, 52, was given a lethal injection late Wednesday at a prison south of Atlanta, less than an hour after the US Supreme Court rejected his appeal for a stay of execution.

He was sentenced to death for the shooting of 50-year-old Richard Slysz, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 

Cromartie had consistently maintained his innocence and the victim’s daughter, Elizabeth Legette, supported his requests for new DNA testing, which successive courts refused, the Journal-Constitution wrote.

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