Moore and Ruby Thornton on a deserted road with a shotgun he had borrowed for a hunting trip, supposedly after he attempted to hold them up.
[1][2] The murder case for which DeVaughn was executed was solved by Birmingham Police Detective Paul Cole, who traced the shells found at the scene, which had a unique marking from a defective shotgun.
DeVaughn was put to death at Kilby Prison in an electric chair built for the purpose earlier that year.
At the first 40-second jolt his body surged forward, a thin gray smoke flowed from under the electrode over his head, and the odor of burning flesh was apparent.
Twenty were present as witnesses, included Moore's brother, George, who traveled from Coffeyville, Kansas and claimed a piece of DaVaughn's belt as a souvenir of his visit.