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Death of baby. On April 11, 1989, teenage mother Sabrina Butler rushed her nine-month-old son, Walter Dean Butler, to the hospital after he suddenly stopped breathing. Doctors had attempted to resuscitate the child for thirty minutes, but failed, and Sabrina's baby died the same day. On April 12, 1989, the day after her son died, Sabrina was ...
Heather Leavell-Keaton. In March and June 2010, Leavell-Keaton murdered her common-law husband 's children, three-year-old Chase DeBlase and four-year-old Natalie DeBlase. Prosecutors allege that she put antifreeze in the children's food and choked them both to death. 9 years and 20 days.
Murder of Leesa Gray. On the night of June 22, 2000, in Dorsey, Mississippi, 16-year-old Leesa Marie Gray (July 11, 1983 – June 23, 2000) was kidnapped by a Marine Corps recruiter named Thomas Edwin Loden Jr. (August 16, 1964 – December 14, 2022), who held her captive inside his van, where he sexually abused her several times before he ...
Capital crimes. The following crimes are punishable by death in Mississippi: Treason. Murder with one of the following aggravating factors: [3][4] It was committed by a person under sentence of imprisonment. The defendant was previously convicted of another capital offense or of a felony involving the use or threat of violence to the person ...
List of death row inmates in the United States. As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
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 1.13 percent of the 1,595 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [2]
Children. 5. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm"). [1]
Sentence. Death. On February 2, 1990, 58-year-old Carl Parker, his wife, 45-year-old Bobbie Jo Parker, and their two children, 12-year-old Gregory Parker and 9-year-old Charlotte Jo Parker, were tortured and murdered in their isolated rural home in Walnut, Quitman County, Mississippi. After leaving a Church Bible study class that evening, the ...