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Thomas Milton Benson Jr. (July 12, 1927 – March 15, 2018) was an American businessman, philanthropist and sports franchise owner. He was the owner of several automobile dealerships before buying the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) in 1985 and the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 2012.
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 ]
At a hearing on July 23, Deputy DA Richard Bentley requested the death penalty. Gray pleaded insanity on all counts. After a witness claimed to have seen Gray at Roberts' house the day of her death, on September 9, 1998, Gray changed her plea to guilty of robbing and murdering two women and attempting to murder another. [ 17 ]
Leavell-Keaton's husband John DeBlase was also sentenced to death. She is the first woman sentenced to death in Mobile County. Christie Michelle Scott [9] In August 2008, a blaze broke out at the home of Christie Michelle Scott in Russellville, Alabama, killing her six-year-old son, Mason. Scott had purchased a $100,000 life insurance policy on ...
Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death by gas chamber and the first woman in Orange County, California, to get the death penalty. Alejandro Avila: Kidnap, rape and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion. 19 years, 271 days Hector Ayala: Murdered three men during an attempted robbery of an automobile body shop. 35 years, 73 days Ronaldo Ayala
Georgia decision barred the death penalty for rape of an adult woman. Previously, the death penalty for rape of an adult had been gradually phased out in the United States, and at the time of the decision, Georgia and the Federal government were the only two jurisdictions to still retain the death penalty for this offense. In the 1980 case ...
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Isaac Benson 37 Black Male ? Murder Hanging 1926-07-23 Baltimore City 37 Richard Whittemore 27 White Male Escaped Convict Murder Hanging 1926-08-13 Baltimore City 38 William Henry Ross 23 Black Male ? Murder Hanging 1927-09-09 Washington 39 Arthur Swann 20 Black Male ? Murder Hanging 1927-09-09 Frederick 40 Ottie Simmons 19 Black Male ? Murder