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Viva Leroy Nash (September 10, 1915 – February 12, 2010) was an American career criminal and one of the oldest prisoners in history as well as one of the longest incarcerated (for a total of 70 years), spending almost 80 years behind bars. He was the oldest American on death row at the time of his death in February 2010. [1]
This is a list of longest prison sentences served by a single person, worldwide, without a period of freedom followed by a second conviction. These cases rarely coincide with the longest prison sentences given, because some countries have laws that do not allow sentences without parole or for convicts to remain in prison beyond a given number of years (regardless of their original conviction).
Paul Geidel Jr. (April 21, 1894 – May 1, 1987) was the longest-serving prison inmate in the United States whose sentence ended with his parole, a fact that earned him a place in Guinness World Records. [1] He is now the 2nd longest-serving inmate next to Francis Clifford Smith who survived 70 years, 31 days.
Inmate Name Register Number Photo Status Details Duane Earl Pope: 85021-132: Served a life sentence. Was released in 2016. Now serving life sentence at Nebraska State Penitentiary. Bank robber and former FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive; killed three bank employees and wounded a fourth while robbing a Nebraska bank of $1600 in 1965. [1] Christopher ...
His son John Franzese Jr. testified against him, becoming the first son of a New York mobster to turn state's evidence and testify against his father. At the time of his release on June 23, 2017, at the age of 100, he was the oldest federal inmate in the United States and the only centenarian in federal custody. He died in a New York City ...
Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss: Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 285 days Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance: Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 136 days Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace
Established in 1852, and opening in 1854, [4] San Quentin is the oldest prison in California. The state's only death row for male inmates, the largest in the United States, was located at the prison. [5] [6] [7] Its gas chamber has not been used since 1993, and its lethal injection chamber was last used in 2006. [8]
He was subsequently executed on this date, at 8:42 p.m. [13] [14] Aged 83 years and 26 days at execution, he was the oldest inmate executed in the United States in the post-Furman era, surpassing the previous record set by the execution of John B. Nixon Sr., who was executed in Mississippi in December 2005 at the age of 77 years, 8 months and ...