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VIII, XIV. Thompson v. Oklahoma, 487 U.S. 815 (1988), was the first case since the moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in the United States in which the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a minor on grounds of "cruel and unusual punishment." [1] The holding in Thompson was expanded on by Roper v.
The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former National Football League (NFL) player and actor O. J. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. The two were stabbed to death outside ...
William Paul Thompson. William Paul "Bud" Thompson (May 2, 1938 – June 19, 1989) was an American criminal, spree killer, and self-described serial / contract killer. Convicted for three murders committed between March and April 1984 in California and Nevada, he later confessed to three additional murders (which remain unsubstantiated) in ...
Conviction (s) November 3, 2005. Criminal charge. Capital murder. Andre Lee Thomas (born March 17, 1983) is an American convicted murderer and death row inmate known for removing both of his eyeballs in separate incidents and ingesting one of them. In 2004, Thomas killed his estranged wife Laura Boren, his four-year-old son and her one-year-old ...
Joshan Ashbrook, 2002 Gary Thorne, 1987. Phillup Alan " Sonny " Partin (born June 29, 1965, in Sacramento, California) [3] is an American convicted murderer currently on Florida death row at Union Correctional Institution. Partin was sentenced to death by a 9–3 vote in favor of the sentence by a jury on December 1, 2008, for the July 31, 2002 ...
Ernest George Burkhart (September 11, 1892 – December 1, 1986) was an American murderer who participated in the Osage Indian murders as a hitman for his uncle William King Hale 's crime ring. He was convicted for the killing of William E. Smith in 1926, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Burkhart was paroled in 1937, but was sent back to ...
Sep. 21—Prosecutors played for jurors Monday a police video of an unsolicited remark Stephen Thompson made from the back seat of the patrol car that was taking him to jail six years ago after ...
Weapons. Knife. Gary Lee Sampson (September 29, 1959 – December 21, 2021) was an American bank robber and later spree killer who killed three people and was sentenced to death by a federal jury in Massachusetts . During three days in 2001, Sampson killed three strangers – retiree Philip McCloskey in Marshfield, Massachusetts, college ...