Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Darlie Lynn Peck Routier (born January 4, 1970) is an American woman from Rowlett, Texas, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of her five-year-old son Damon in 1996. She has also been charged with capital murder in the death of her six-year-old son, Devon, who was murdered at the same time as Damon. To date, Routier has not ...
Executed by lethal injection in Texas on January 10, 2023. [7] Darlie Routier, convicted of murdering her five-year-old son, Damon. Two of her sons, Damon and 6-year-old Devon, were killed in the attack, but she was only tried for the murder of Damon.
Darlie Routier: Stabbed her two sons in 1996. 27 years, 362 days Routier's case has attracted the attention of wrongful conviction advocacy groups in recent years. She is in the process of raising funds to test evidence found at the scene for DNA. [96] [97] Víctor Saldaño: Kidnapped and shot dead Paul Ray King. 28 years, 142 days
In South Carolina, which on Friday will execute its first inmate since 2011, 43 convicted murderers have been executed by the state since the death penalty was reinstated here in 1976. Few death ...
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
Her appeals have been unsuccessful and the appeal procedure has been exhausted. [65] Barring the granting of clemency, she stands to become the first female British national to be executed since Ruth Ellis in 1955, and the first British black woman executed in more than a century. In 2014, key witnesses against her, including a DEA agent for ...
South Carolina on Friday is scheduled to hold the first execution in the state since 2011. Dozens have been executed in SC since 1976. Here’s how many have gotten off death row
The state Supreme Court canceled Williams' scheduled execution in 2015, allowing time for further DNA testing. Just hours before Williams was again scheduled to be executed in 2017, then-Gov. Eric Greitens also canceled the lethal injection amid DNA questions. Greitens appointed a board of retired judges to investigate the case.