Willie John McBride Willie John McBride William James McBride, MBE, better known as Willie John McBride (born 6 June 1940) is a former rugby union footballer who played as a lock for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions. He played 63 Tests for Ireland including eleven as captain, and toured with the Lions five times — a record that gave him 17 Lions Test caps. He also captained the most successful ever Lions side, which toured South Africa in 1974. McBride was born at Toomebridge, County Antrim. Owing to his father's death when he was five years old, he spent most of
Murder of Tracie McBride was executed at USP Terre Haute, making him the third federal prisoner executed since federal executions resumed in 2001. McBride's family and a friend attended the execution. , Jones remains the last person executed by the United States federal government. McBride was buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minnesota. The Tracie Joy McBride Scholarship Fund and its associated event, Tracie’s Night, were named after her; the fund is primarily managed by her sister, Stacie McBride-Cox. The episode "Life Interrupted" of the television show "", first aired in 2007, describes this case. In "Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A