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Casement converted to Catholicism before his execution and stated he intended to go "to my death with the body of my God as my last meal." Ruth Ellis: Murder: UK: 1955: Hanging: Scrambled egg. Véronique Frantz: Serial murder: France: 1854: Decapitation by guillotine: Café au lait and a bread roll. Fritz Haarmann: Serial murder: Germany: 1925
- Joe Arridy
Joseph Arridy (/ ˈ ær ɪ d i /; April 29, 1915 – January 6,...
- Steven Michael Woods Jr
Steven Michael Woods Jr. (April 17, 1980 – September 13,...
- Gruel
Gruel is a food consisting of some type of cereal—such as...
- Jack Alderman
Jack Edward Alderman (May 29, 1951 – September 16, 2008)...
- Mark Hopkinson
Mark Allen Hopkinson (October 8, 1949 – January 22, 1992)...
- Leo Echegaray
Leo Pilo Echegaray (11 July 1960 – 5 February 1999) was the...
- Ronald Turpin
Cause of death: Execution by hanging: Criminal status:...
- Joe Arridy
On death row: 26 (as of September 30, 2023) Total number executed: 200 (1913–2017) Due to the high number of Arkansas death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. A full list is externally linked: List of death row inmates in Arkansas
A s the sun set on an 87-year-old tradition, death row inmates in the Lone Star state found themselves partaking in their last suppers alongside the general prison population, all because of one ...
- David Wayne Stoker. Executed: 16 June 1997. Education: Eight years. Occupation: Heavy-equipment operator/carpenter. Last statement: "I am truly sorry for your loss...
- Anthony Ray Westley. Executed: 13 May 1997. Education: Eight years. Occupation: Labourer. Last statement: "I want you to know that I did not kill anyone.
- Thomas Andy Barefoot. Executed: 30 October 1984. Education: Not listed. Occupation: Oilfield roughneck. Last statement: "I hope that one day we can look back on the evil that we're doing right now like the witches we burned at the stake.
- James Russell. Executed: 19 September 1991. Education: 10 years. Occupation: Musician. Last statement: Reported to have lasted three minutes, it was either not transcribed or not recorded.
- Timeline of Scandal
- Framing
- Crash Culture
- Rampart Ties to Death Row Records
- Record Settlement
- Rampart Investigation Cover Up
- Political and Cultural Aftermath
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March 18, 1997 – Officer Kevin Gaines road rage shootout
Around 4 p.m. on March 18, 1997, LAPD undercover officer Frank Lyga shot and killed a plainclothes Rampart CRASH officer, Kevin Gaines, in self-defense, following a case of road rage. According to Lyga and other witnesses, Gaines pulled his green Mitsubishi Montero up to Lyga's Buick and flashed gang signs. After, Gaines followed Lyga and brandished a .45 ACP handgun. Lyga took out his gun and called for backup using a hidden radio activated by a foot pedal, saying, "Hey, I got a problem. I'v...
November 6, 1997 – Officer David Mack bank robbery
On November 6, 1997, $722,000 were stolen in an armed robbery of a Los Angeles branch of Bank of America. After one month of investigation, assistant bank manager Errolyn Romero confessed to her role in the crime and implicated her boyfriend, LAPD officer David Mack, as the mastermind. Mack was sentenced to fourteen years and three months in federal prison. He has never revealed the whereabouts of the money and while incarcerated, bragged to fellow inmates that he would become a millionaire b...
February 26, 1998 – Rampart Station beating
On February 26, 1998, Rampart CRASH officer Brian Hewitt brought Ismael Jimenez, a member of the 18th Street Gang, into the Rampart police station for questioning. According to CRASH officer Rafael Pérez's recorded testimony, Hewitt "got off" on beating suspects. In the course of questioning, he beat the handcuffed Jimenez in the chest and stomach until he vomited blood. After his release, Jimenez went to the emergency room and told doctors he had been beaten by Hewitt and his partner Daniel...
Pérez framed four members of the Temple Street gang as being associated with the murder of Mexican Mafia member Miguel "Lizard" Malfavon. The incident took place at a McDonald's on Alvarado Street, where four supposed members all planned to kill Malfavon while he tried to collect "taxes" from the gang. Pérez found a material witness who had blood o...
In extensive testimony to investigators, Pérez provided a detailed portrait of the culture of the elite CRASH unit. Pérez insisted that 90% of CRASH officers were "in the loop", knowingly framing civilians and perjuring themselves on the witness stand. Pérez claims his superiors were aware of and encouraged CRASH officers to engage in misconduct; t...
The Rampart Corruption Task Force investigators discovered that hip hop mogul Suge Knight, owner of Death Row Records, had hired several of the corrupt Rampart officers for security at various times including Nino Durden, Kevin Gaines, David Mack, and Rafael Pérez. Knight was hiring off-duty Rampart policemen to work for Death Row as security guard...
The city of Los Angelesfaced more than 140 civil suits resulting from the Rampart scandal and paid total estimated settlement costs around $125 million. Javier Ovando was awarded a $15 million settlement on November 21, 2000, the largest police misconduct settlement in Los Angeleshistory. Twenty-nine other civil suits were settled for nearly $11 mi...
There have been multiple allegations that Chief Parks and members of the LAPD were actively involved in obstructing the Rampart Investigation.Parks was in charge of Internal Affairs when Gaines and other Rampart officers were first discovered to have ties to the Bloods and Death Row Records. Parks is said to have protected these officers from inves...
The newly elected Mayor James Hahn did not rehire Parks in 2002. This arguably caused Hahn to lose the support of South Los Angeles' black community, leading to his defeat by Antonio Villaraigosa in the 2005 election. In 2002, the television series The Shield premiered, depicting a band of rogue Los Angeles police officers. The program was so direc...
Markovitz, Jonathan (2011). Racial Spectacles: Explorations in Media, Race, and Justice. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-88383-2. (Chapters on Rampart in popular culture and in the news.)
PBS.org Frontlinehas extensive coverage of the scandal, including audio files of Pérez's testimonyMar 10, 2020 · By Jay Rayner. March 10, 2020. At some point last Oct. 1, Russell Bucklew was served a gyro, a smoked brisket sandwich, two portions of fries, a cola and a banana split. We know this because ...
Death row. 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. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for ...
