US execution planned of killer who said witchcraft drove him

CHICAGO (AP) — The Trump administration this week is set to resume this year’s wave of federal executions following a 17-year hiatus. If it goes ahead as scheduled Tuesday, William Emmett LeCroy would be the sixth federal death-row inmate executed this year at the U.S. prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Another is scheduled Thursday. LeCroy said an obsession with witchcraft led him to slay a Georgia nurse to lift a spell he believed she put on him. Lawyers asked President Donald Trump i