The only execution in Louisiana in 1999 was of Dobie...

The only execution in Louisiana in 1999 was of Dobie Gillis Williams, executed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary on January 8 for the bloody 1984 murder of Sonja Knippers. "I just want to say, I don't have any hard feelings against anybody," he said calmly in a final statement. "God bless ya'll. God bless." Williams' execution had been delayed in 1998 after concerns about the reliability of his conviction. Sister Helen Prejean had been Williams' spiritual advisor and accompanied him to his execution.