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Samuel Christopher Hawkins (January 9, 1943 – February 21, 1995), known as The Traveling Rapist, was an American murderer and serial rapist who committed two murders in Texas, from 1976 to 1977.
A TCU student who was killed early Friday in the West 7th district was approached on the street and shot three times by a man who didn’t know him and who couldn’t give detectives a clear ...
“He was an all-American guy,” said Wes’ father, Philip Smith.
In 2005, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a pardon saying a verdict of manslaughter would have been more appropriate. The first individual electrocuted for a crime and sentenced to death (in Georgia) was Howard Henson, a black male, for rape and robbery; by electrocution on September 13, 1924, in DeKalb County.
On November 10, 2003, an armed robbery took place in Dania Beach, Florida, when a man with a revolver forced his way into a Walgreens store. The suspect fled the store with nearly $2,000 in cash. Descriptions of the suspect provided by two store employees did not match. In 2004, a mistrial for Cure was declared after the jury deadlocked.
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The Georgia NAACP described the killing as "a case of racial profiling". [3] The State of Georgia paid $4.8 million dollars to the widow and survivors of Mr. Lewis to resolve the civil rights claims. The settlement is the largest civil rights settlement paid by the State of Georgia.
Officials on Wednesday released video of the traffic stop and physical confrontation that ended with a sheriff deputy in Georgia shooting a Black man to death at point-blank range. Leonard Allan ...