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1 day ago · Jones was also sentenced to death in Florida for a similar murder committed just days after these murders, and is suspected of yet another killing in that state. His first death sentence was overturned, but he was found guilty in a second trial in 2015. [92] Donald Ray Middlebrooks: Tortured and murdered 14-year-old Kerrick Majors. 35 years, 2 days
- Len Davis
In 1994, Davis beat a young man in New Orleans, mistaking...
- Dylann Roof
Dylann Storm Roof [1] (born April 3, 1994) is an American...
- List of Women on Death Row in The United States
This is a list of women on death row in the United...
- Samantha Runnion
On May 16, 2005, a jury returned a guilty verdict, and Avila...
- Michael Owen Perry
Michael Owen Perry (born December 3, 1954) [2] murdered five...
- Preston Strong
Preston Alton Strong (born June 1966) is a convicted mass...
- Marvin Gabrion
Marvin Charles Gabrion (born October 18, 1953) is an...
- Isauro Aguirre
Gabriel Daniel Fernandez [2] was born on February 20, 2005,...
- Troy Kell
Troy Michael Kell (born June 13, 1968 [1]) is an inmate on...
- Richard Djerf
There were four death sentence rulings on May 22, 1996. [4]...
- Len Davis
1 day ago · —J. W. Milam, Look magazine, 1956 In an interview with William Bradford Huie that was published in Look magazine in 1956, Bryant and Milam said that they intended to beat Till and throw him off an embankment into the river to frighten him. They told Huie that while they were beating Till, he called them bastards, declared he was as good as they and said that he had sexual encounters with ...
1 day ago · The federal death penalty data released by the United States Department of Justice between 1995 and 2000 shows that 682 defendants were sentenced to death. [140] Out of those 682 defendants, the defendant was Black in 48% of the cases, Hispanic in 29% of the cases, and White in 20% of the cases.
1 day ago · The United Methodist Church also believes that Jesus explicitly repudiated the lex talionis in Matthew 5:38–39 and abolished the death penalty in John 8:7. [117] The General Conference of the United Methodist Church calls for its bishops to uphold opposition to capital punishment and for governments to enact an immediate moratorium on ...
1 day ago · After he was sentenced on June 4, 1998, to life without parole, the State of Oklahoma in 2000 sought a death-penalty conviction on 161 counts of first-degree murder (160 non-federal-agent victims and one fetus). [195] On May 26, 2004, the jury found him guilty on all charges, but deadlocked on the issue of sentencing him to death.
1 day ago · Criminal penalty Death ; commuted to life imprisonment Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), better known as Philippe Pétain ( French: [filip petɛ̃] ) and Marshal Pétain (French: Maréchal Pétain ), was a French general who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the ...
1 day ago · The Witches by Hans Baldung (woodcut), 1508. The concept of witchcraft and the belief in its existence have persisted throughout recorded history. According to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions there is "difficulty of defining 'witches' and 'witchcraft' across cultures—terms that, quite apart from their connotations in popular culture ...
