(CNN) Lee Hall, convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend nearly three decades ago, was executed by the state of Tennessee on Thursday night, the Department of Correction said.

Hall was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. CT. He had chosen the electric chair over lethal injection.

The first jolt of electricity was given about eight minutes before his death was announced. There was a second burst of 1,750 volts given about 20 seconds after the first.

Staci Wooten, sister of murder victim Traci Crozier, told reporters outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville her family had waited 28 years for this night.

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