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Steven Michael Woods Jr. (April 17, 1980 – September 13, 2011) [1] was an American who was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas. [2] Woods was sentenced to death after a jury convicted him of the capital murders of Ronald Whitehead, 21, and Bethena Brosz, 19, on May 2, 2001, in The Colony, Texas. [3]
Mark James Asay was the first person executed by lethal injection using the drug etomidate. Robert Lee Massie was California's longest-serving death row inmate prior to his execution in 2001. Donald Dillbeck was Florida's 100th execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty. Louis Gaskin was executed in Florida in 2023 for a double murder.
Walter Leroy Moody Jr. (March 24, 1935 – April 19, 2018) was an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to death and executed in Alabama for the 1989 letter bomb murder of Robert S. Vance, a U.S. federal judge serving on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
Alice Bishop White Female ? Murder 1648 Hanging Suffolk 15 Margaret Jones: White Female Housewife Witchcraft: 1648-06-15 Hanging Suffolk 16 [?] Kendall White Female Housewife Witchcraft 1651 Hanging Plymouth 17 Mary Parsons White Female Housewife Witchcraft 1651-05-29 Hanging Suffolk 18 Ann Hibbens White Female Widow Witchcraft 1656-06-19 ...
The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty). As an example, Earl Carl Heiselbetz Jr. (the first person executed in Texas during the 2000 decade) was the 200th person executed since resumption of the death penalty.
On the morning of December 15, 1978, Ture entered the home of Alice Huling, 36, in Clearwater. He fatally shot Alice before ascending to her children's bedrooms and tying them up before shooting them; 16-year-old Susan , 12-year-old Patti , and 13-year-old Wayne , were killed, while a fourth child, 11-year-old William "Billy" , survived. [ 4 ]
Randy Susskind, deputy director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has also criticized the policy, commenting, "Historically, unanimity has been a hallmark of our jury system", adding that in death penalty cases, the state being unable to convince the entire jury beyond a reasonable doubt "is a pretty important factor". [14]
Vermont has abolished the death penalty for all crimes, but has an invalid death penalty statue for treason. [89] When it abolished the death penalty in 2019, New Hampshire explicitly did not commute the death sentence of the sole person remaining on the state's death row, Michael K. Addison. [90] [91]