Killer put to death for $5 murder

Killer put to death for $5 murder

Potosi, Missouri - A man was executed by injection yesterday for beating his grandmother in a dispute over money and leaving her to die in her burning home in 1985. Robert Sidebottom, 33, who had been on death row since 1987, was executed at the Potosi Correctional Center after the Supreme Court turned down last-minute requests for a stay. Sidebottom confessed to beating his grandmother after she gave him $5 - less than what he had demanded, prosecutors said. AP