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Simpson vs. United States, 435 U.S. 6, was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a defendant cannot be sentenced under the punishments of both 18 U.S.C. 2113 (d) [1] and 18 U.S.C. 924 (a) [2] for armed robbery.
On October 18, 1995, three days before Clagett was sentenced to death, Holsinger was sentenced to five concurrent life terms plus 23 years, and since her sentencing took place before the abolition of parole under Virginia laws, she would be eligible for parole after around 20 years into her sentence. [28]
On January 5, 1990, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, 19-year-old Leann Marion Whitlock (November 30, 1970 – January 5, 1990), an African-American sophomore at James Madison University, was kidnapped by two White men outside a shopping mall and later murdered by her abductors, Ronald Lee Henderson and Thomas "Tommy" David Strickler (August 5, 1965 – July 21, 1999), the latter of whom was the ...
U.S. District Judge James Hendrix sentenced Jaden Tipton 255 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to federal robbery and weapons charges. Lubbock armed robber who crashed vehicle into ...
McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court case, in which the death sentence of Warren McCleskey for armed robbery and murder was upheld. The Court said the "racially disproportionate impact" in the Georgia death penalty indicated by a comprehensive scientific study was not enough to mitigate a death penalty determination without showing a "racially discriminatory ...
Finney was charged with armed robbery and murder after her accomplice was shot and killed by deputies, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Finney was found in a shower stall with a plastic garbage bag over her head, and died ten days later. Jail or Agency: Volusia County Branch Jail; State: Florida; Date arrested or booked: 5/29/2016; Date of ...
Only two people were on death row in Virginia at the time of the abolition: Anthony Juniper and Thomas A. Porter. [16] Their sentences were commuted to life without parole. [17] The last execution in Virginia occurred in July 2017, when William Morva was executed for two murders he committed in 2006. The daughter of one of his victims supported ...
After serving 27 years for a string of armed robberies he committed in the early 90s, McCloud was released from prison in 2018 after a Johnson County judge said the terms of his sentence should ...