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Ruth Ann Steinhagen (born Ruth Catherine Steinhagen; December 23, 1929 – December 29, 2012) was an American woman who shot and nearly killed Eddie Waitkus, star first baseman of the Philadelphia Phillies, on June 14, 1949, in one of the first instances of what later became known as stalker crimes. [2]
Barring the granting of clemency, she stands to become the first female British national to be executed since Ruth Ellis in 1955, and the first British black woman executed in more than a century. In 2014, key witnesses against her, including a DEA agent for whom she worked as an informant, recanted and claimed they were coerced into testifying ...
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
The Justice Department plans to execute the first woman in nearly seven decades just days before President-Elect Joe Biden is inaugurated, a controversial decision that had been temporarily halted ...
Montgomery is the 11th person executed by President Trump’s administration since July. Montgomery got the death sentence in 2008 for killing a pregnant woman in 2004 and stealing her fetus.
Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing ...
James Rolfe (born 1980), creator and star of Angry Video Game Nerd internet series and film director; Lisa Roma (1892–1965), operatic soprano and music educator; J. D. Roth (born 1968), actor and game show host; Bob Saget (1956–2022), actor, comedian, and game show host; Mathew St. Patrick (born 1968), actor; Diane Salinger (born 1951), actress
She has been the only woman on Tennessee's death row since 2010, when then-Gov. Phil Bredesen commuted the death sentence of Gaile Owens, who died in 2010. Evan Mealins is the justice reporter for ...