JACKSON, Ga. AP – A Georgia man convicted of murdering one of the followers of his white supremacist group insisted that he was not to blame for the killing shortly before he was put to death Wednesday evening.

William Mark Mize, 52, said the legal system refused to accept that another one of his followers may have been responsible for the 1994 murder of Eddie Tucker, who was shot to death after he failed to follow Mize’s orders.