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Thompson v. Oklahoma. William Wayne Thompson v. State of Oklahoma. Defendant tried as an adult and convicted of murder of his brother-in-law, who had been abusing his ex-wife, who was Thompson's sister; was found guilty; and was sentenced to death. Appealed to Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma, decision affirmed, 1986 OK CR 130, 724 P.2d 780.
At that moment, Gollehon was serving a 130-year sentence for murdering a woman. Ronald Allen Smith [62] Kidnapped and murdered 23-year-old Harvey Mad Man and 20-year-old Thomas Running Rabbit, two Native American men in the fall of 1982. 41 years, 182 days. Smith is the only Canadian on death row in the United States.
Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a landmark criminal case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. It was a per curiam decision. Five justices each wrote separately in ...
His friend Tyler Thompson, was also given the death penalty. The pair, aged in their 20s, had played football together in Utah. His stepmother Miranda Thompson in June told the BBC the family had ...
How 3 young Americans got involved in a coup attempt. The three imprisoned Americans are Malanga’s 21-year-old son Marcel Malanga, Tyler Thompson Jr., 21, who flew to Africa from Utah with the ...
William Parr [h] 20 38 34 James Edward Rodden Jr. White February 24, 1999 Clay: Terry Trunnel and Joseph Arnold 23 39 35 Roy Michael Roberts: White March 10, 1999 Marion: Correctional officer Tom Jackson 31 45 36 Roy Ramsey Jr. Black April 14, 1999 Jackson: Garnett Ledford and Betty Ledford 35 46 37 Ralph E. Davis Black April 28, 1999 Boone ...
Updated August 29, 2024 at 8:46 AM. A Florida judge on Tuesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for the random 2019 killings of two Southwest Florida women. Wade Steven Wilson, reportedly tied ...
Murders of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGiffrey. Mary Antoine. 30 September 1814. " [K]illed a 'female' who had 'alienated her husband's affection'"; daughter of Abram Antoine [q.v.]; first reported execution of a woman in the State of New York. Charles Thompson and James Peters (aka Peterson) [15] August 1815.