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In a similar 1999 case in Texas, David M. Long attempted suicide by drug overdose two days before his execution date and prison authorities flew him from an intensive care unit in Galveston, on a ventilator, accompanied by a full medical team, to the death chamber in Huntsville. [5]
A total of 79 witnesses were called to the stand at his trial in 1999. Some of the witnesses testified that he hated elderly people and that he believed that they "should be gassed." [10] Majors was convicted on October 17 for six murders; the jury deadlocked on a seventh because the victim had taken longer to die than the others. [7]
Reta Phyllis Mays (born June 16, 1975) [2] is an American serial killer who murdered at least seven elderly military veterans over a span of eleven months, between July 2017 and June 2018, by injecting them with lethal doses of insulin while she was employed as a nursing assistant at the Louis A. Johnson Veterans Medical Center, in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Both doctors, who were detained by the judge immediately after their trial convictions in January, ... For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help.
To supplement these figures, we scoured news reports and press releases, gathered official records, filed public records requests, and called hundreds of jails. When news reports omitted details like the date of arrest or official cause of death, reporters requested that information, either from the jail or the office of the medical examiner ...
James Charles Kopp was born in Pasadena, California and raised Lutheran, but later converted to Roman Catholicism.Kopp graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1976, with a bachelor's degree in biology, going on to take a master's degree in embryology from California State University Fullerton.
A former California prison guard who pleaded no contest to solicitation of murder after hiring a hit man to kill his lover’s husband was sentenced Wednesday in Fresno County to six years in prison.
Michael Joseph Swango (born James Michael Swango, [1] October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and physician who is estimated to have been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues in the United States and Zimbabwe, although he admitted to causing only four deaths.