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Gaskins then detonated the makeshift bomb by plugging the wire into a prison cell power outlet. Final arrest. Gaskins was arrested on November 14, 1975, when a criminal associate named Walter Neeley confessed to police that he had knowledge of Gaskins killing Dennis Bellamy, age 28, and Johnny Knight, age 15.
Jan 21, 2022 · Before the execution, Donald tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists. However, he was rescued and received stitches. Donald was executed by the electric chair on September 6, 1991, at 1:10 AM. He was 58 years old at the time of his death. Where is Shirley Gaskins Now? Shirley, Donald’s daughter, was born in 1952 in Prospect.
In 1962, Gaskins was arrested for the statutory rape of a 12-year-old girl, but he escaped to North Carolina in a stolen car. Once in North Carolina, he met a 17-year-old girl whom he married. She eventually turned him into the police for statutory rape and he received six years in Columbia Penitentiary.
Nov 21, 2022 · Local News. Think you know why serial killer 'Pee Wee' Gaskins got the death penalty? You might be surprised. Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins was 58 years old when he was electrocuted in South...
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May 9, 2024 · What happened to Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins? Gaskins and Neely were both convicted of killing Bellamy and sentenced to death in May of 1976, but the sentence was commuted to life in prison later that year after the South Carolina death statute was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sep 6, 2018 · COLUMBIA, SC — In the hours leading up to September 6, 1991, Donald Henry “Pee Wee” Gaskins, 58, slit his wrists with a razor he had smuggled into his Death Row cell by swallowing it days earlier.
Jan 4, 2021 · YouTube Pee Wee Gaskins claimed to have killed at least 90 people. Though the death penalty was reinstated in 1978, Gaskins was destined to live out the rest of his life behind bars. Then, he accepted a hit job to be taken out on a fellow inmate, and he was found guilty of murder yet again.
