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Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, was found guilty in 1968 of multiple murders. An 88-year-old man was cleared of murder after spending 46 years on death row — mostly ...
The longest sitting death row inmate, Fred Singleton, is also the oldest at age 80. He was convicted in 1983 after sexually assaulting a 73-year-old woman and strangling her to death with a ...
Steven Lawayne Nelson was born in Ada, Oklahoma, on February 18, 1987.Nelson, who had a brother and sister (who was deaf), was a victim of childhood abuse and neglect. Nelson's mother left him at home by himself, sometimes for 3 to 4 days, and never paid much attention to her children, while Nelson's father was often absent in his life, and he was abusive towards his children and w
The world's longest-serving death row prisoner thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a Japanese court last week overturned his decades-old murder conviction ...
Allan B. Polunsky Unit (death row) Richard Lee Tabler (February 5, 1979 – February 13, 2025) was an American spree killer who was responsible for four murders committed in 2004. On Thanksgiving Day of 2004, Tabler and a co-defendant shot and killed two men at a nightclub in Killeen, Texas .
The old law called for a majority vote of the jury to sentence a defendant to death. [9] The new law calls for a unanimous jury vote of death in order to sentence a defendant to death. In 2016 Doty's first death sentence was thrown out. He was retried two years later, and the jury unanimously voted to sentence him to death again on May 15, 2018.
Council was sentenced to death in 2019 for the heinous 2017 murders of two South Carolina bank employees and mothers — 59-year-old Donna Major, and 36-year-old Kathryn Skeen — during a bloody ...
William Clyde Gibson III (born October 10, 1957) is an American serial killer and rapist who is currently on Indiana's death row for the sexually-motivated murders of two women in 2002 and 2012, in addition to serving a 65-year sentence for a third murder committed in 2012.