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As of January 1, 2023, there were 2,331 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).
- Len Davis
A subsequent jury also chose the death penalty for Davis,...
- Dylann Roof
Dylann Storm Roof (born April 3, 1994) is an American white...
- 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
Background. Michael Owen Perry (born December 3, 1954)...
- Isauro Aguirre
On May 24, 2013, Gabriel Fernandez, an eight-year-old boy...
- Troy Kell
Troy Michael Kell (born June 13, 1968) is an inmate on death...
- Richard Djerf
Richard Kenneth Djerf (born November 6, 1969) is an American...
- Nikko Jenkins
Nikko Allen Jenkins (sometimes spelled Nicholas on first...
- Jason Eugene Bush
On May 30, 2009, 29-year-old Raul Flores Jr. and his...
- Len Davis
Here is a look at the 184 inmates currently on Texas' death row. Texas, which reinstated the death penalty in 1976, has the most active execution chamber in the nation. On average, these inmates have spent 18 years, 4 months on death row. Though 12 percent of the state's residents are black, 45 percent of death row inmates are.
Executions 1990–1999. The number in the "#" column indicates the n th person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty). As an example, Jerome Butler (the first person executed in Texas during the 1990 decade) was the 34th person executed since resumption of the death penalty. Source: List of executed offenders by the TDCJ ...
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Myers and Back had attended the same middle school together and were childhood friends in seventh and eighth grade. Back was a 2013 Waynesville High School graduate, and before his murder, he was about to enter the Navy. According to Mosley's statement, Myers had asked Mosley if he wanted to make some money. Mosley was interested, and the pair disc...
On the morning of January 28, 2014, Myers and Mosley purchased septic enzymes, ammonia, septic tankcleaner, and rubber gloves. They then drove to Back's home and arrived around 1:00 p.m. The plan was for Myers to distract Back while Mosley strangled him with the garrote. Mosley armed himself with the garrote as well as a six-inch pocketknife. Myers...
While driving, Mosley became paranoid about being followed, so he took side roads to a remote area, where he parked and checked outside the car for blood. Myers searched for Back's wallet, which he located in one of the bags. The wallet contained more than $100, which Myers took. The two then drove back to Mosley's house, where they unloaded items ...
Cates came home from work around 3:30 p.m. realizing that a table had been moved and some rugs were missing. Later, he and his wife found his safe and his handgun missing. They called the police and tried to contact Back, but discovered his cell phone had been left inside the house. During the investigation, officers described a car that had been s...
The case received attention because Mosley, who used the knife to murder Back, received a sentence of life without parole because of a plea bargain, while Myers received a death sentence.Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time. The murder caused proposed changes in Ohio state law to increase penalties for murder, named "Ju...
The case also received international coverage with the BBC covering it as part of a BBC Three documentary series on capital punishment in the United States - Life and Death Row- (series 2, episode 3).
- February 13, 1995
- Murder case
- Stab wounds
- January 28, 2014 (aged 18), Waynesville, Ohio, U.S.
Under the new statute, the first man (#507 John Devries) was placed on death row on February 15, 1974. Devries committed suicide July 1, 1974, by hanging himself with bed sheets. The State of Texas adopted lethal injection as means of execution in 1977 and executed the first inmate by lethal injection on December 7, 1982.
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death.
Apr 26, 2019 · The Florida Supreme Court unanimously overturned the conviction of death row inmate John Robert Ballard and ordered his acquittal in the 1999 murders of two of his acquaintances (Ballard v Florida, No. SC03-1012, February 23, 2006). The Court concluded that the circumstantial evidence against Ballard was insufficient to sustain his conviction.
