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2 days ago · William George Bonin (January 8, 1947 – February 23, 1996), also called the Freeway Killer [2] and the Freeway Strangler, [3] was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered young men and boys between November 1968 and June 1980 in southern California. He was convicted of 14 murders, but he confessed to 21 and ...
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- Ashes scattered in Pacific Ocean
- The Freeway Killer, The Freeway Strangler
- Execution by lethal injection
1 day ago · An execution is not supposed to be torture. Capital punishment is death, and throughout history, there have been many methods employed to achieve this. Sometimes, however, executions do not go as ...
1 day ago · News. Family of Black teen wrongly executed in 1931 seeks damages after 2022 exoneration “They murdered him,” said Susie Williams Carter, 94, the last surviving sibling in a family of 13 children.
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1 day ago · In 1931, Alexander McClay Williams — Black, 16 years old, 4’7”, 91 lbs and innocent — was executed for the murder of Vida Robare, a 33-year-old white woman who worked as a matron at the Glen Mills School for Boys in Thornbury Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, where he was a student.
2 days ago · PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and exonerated by the governor in 2022 ...
1 day ago · Author and educator Samuel Lemon had known about the case since he was a child because Williams was defended at trial by his great-grandfather, William H. Ridley. The only Black lawyer in Delaware County at the time, Ridley had been paid $10 for the trial, with no support for investigators or experts. He faced off against a team of 15.
1 day ago · A Morgan County jury on Monday recommended Corey Maples, convicted of capital murder almost 30 years ago for shooting and killing two friends, be sentenced to life without parole.
