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Rocheville was executed on December 3, 1999, [10] while Longworth was executed more than five years later, on April 15, 2005. [11] Longworth was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. after being executed by lethal injection at the Broad River Correctional Institution. It was the 958th execution in the United States since the Gregg v. Georgia decision in ...
The Life of David Gale is a 2003 crime thriller film directed and co-produced by Alan Parker, written by Charles Randolph, co-produced by Nicolas Cage, and starring Kevin Spacey as the title character, a college professor and longtime activist against capital punishment who is sentenced to death for killing a fellow capital punishment opponent; Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, and Gabriel Mann co-star.
The film chronicles the life of Lena Baker, born to a sharecropper family, who later worked as a maid in a small county town to support her three children.Convicted in 1945 of capital murder by an all-white, male jury, Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by the electric chair.
Troy Anthony Davis (October 9, 1968 – September 21, 2011) [1] [2] was a man convicted of and executed for the August 19, 1989 murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King restaurant and was intervening to defend a man being assaulted in a nearby parking lot when he was ...
Danial Anthony Lucas, who was convicted of the crimes in 1999, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. EST at the state prison in Jackson.
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George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14 was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.
Georgia's parole board has rejected clemency for a condemned man set to die Wednesday night, clearing the way for the state's first execution in more than four years. Lawyers for Willie James Pye ...