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Antoinette Frank was a New Orleans police officer when she and Rogers LaCaze killed Officer Ronald Williams and siblings Ha and Cuong Vu, owners of the Kim Anh restaurant, during a 1995 robbery. 29 years, 3 months and 21 days In 2007, Frank's petition to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari was denied. [47]
Since 1976, when the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in Gregg v. Georgia, 18 women have been executed in the United States. [1] Women represent about 1.12 percent of the 1,610 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [2]
This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
First-degree murder for the shooting death of police officer Lauretha Vaird. 28 years, 60 days Raghunandan Yandamuri: First-degree murders and kidnapping of Saanvi Venna and her grandmother, Satyavathi Venna. 10 years, 83 days Yandamuri is one of the two only Indians on death row in the United States. His execution was delayed in January 2018.
Allen was the first black woman to be executed in the United States since 1954. [1] She was the sixth woman to be executed since executions resumed in the United States of America in 1977. [ 2 ] Her final appeals and the last three months of her life were chronicled by filmmaker Liz Garbus in the documentary The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002).
A Texas police officer was blinded when a gunman shot at her multiple times, striking her in the face, during a targeted, execution-style killing of another officer. Dallas police Sr. Cpl. Karissa ...
McGlone was arrested outside his home two days later on January 4, 1996. He was charged with murder in the death of officer Vaird. After questioning McGlone, police issued a warrant for the arrests of Canty and Roney. Canty was arrested during a traffic stop in Maryland at a later date. [1] Roney surrendered to the police on January 6, 1996. [6]
On July 15, 2017, Justine Damond (née Ruszczyk), [3] a 40-year-old Australian-American woman, [4] was fatally shot by Minneapolis Police Department officer Mohamed Noor after she had called 9-1-1 to report the possible assault of a woman in an alley behind her house.