Columbia, S.C. ? A man was executed Friday for shooting a woman in the head with a rifle in a shopping mall parking lot 15 years ago.

Anthony Green was sentenced to death in 1988 for the murder of 36-year-old Susan Barbara Babich, a mother of two. He was put to death by injection.

Babich was mugged and shot moments after she parked her car in November 1987 at a Charleston mall.

Green was arrested about a half-hour later with a rifle and Babich’s checkbook in his car.

He told police he shot Babich because she saw him sneaking up on her.

Green, 37, chose not to issue a statement before his execution.

Nobody from Babich’s or Green’s families was among the eight witnesses in the gallery.

“Because of the act of one selfish individual, our family’s perspective on society, as well as how we approach everyday activities, has been forever changed,” the Babich family wrote in a statement.

Green is the 27th person executed since South Carolina reinstated the death penalty in 1977, and he is the second this year.