Atmore, Ala. ? A man condemned for killing his daughter’s 16-year-old boyfriend in rural south Alabama in 1987 was executed Thursday without admitting to his daughter what she called the damage he caused by the killing and abusing her for years.

Phillip Hallford was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. at Holman Prison and declined to say any final words. The 63-year-old Hallford spoke softly to the chaplain and guards for a few minutes as the injection was administered.

He was sentenced to die for forcing his then-15-year-old daughter to lure Eddie Shannon to an isolated area in Dale County, shooting the teen three times and throwing the body off a bridge. Trial testimony showed he was angry because they were dating.

His daughter, Melinda Hallford Powell, also says he sexually abused her and had never admitted it.

Powell was at her home in North Carolina and unable to attend the execution. She said she was “relieved” to hear that Hallford was dead.

“Now he’s not going to hurt anybody else,” she said.

Powell, who was pregnant at the time of the killing, is married with three children. She said she had been sexually abused by her father and had lived “a nightmare” for years.

After he killed Shannon, she said, her father made a necklace out of the casings from the bullets that were fired at Shannon and made her wear it.