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Jeri Davis continued to care for her elderly mother-in-law even after she remarried. Gray knew Norma Davis very well. On February 16, 1994, Davis had been dead for two days when she was found by her neighbor, Alice Williams. Davis had a wood-handled utility knife sticking out of her neck and a fillet knife sticking out of her chest. Other than ...
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.
On April 30, 2001, the prosecutor decided to request the death penalty. Urdiales' trial for the murders of Ulyaki and Huber opened on April 8, 2002. Urdiales was found guilty of two murders on May 23, 2002, and sentenced to death seven days later on May 30, 2002. Urdiales' case became a political issue for a short time.
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.
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]
Death penalty for murder, aggravated murder, drug smuggling, terrorism, arms trafficking, armed robbery resulting in death, certain military offenses (e.g. cowardice, assisting the enemy, abetting a successful mutiny), kidnapping, rape, gang rape, perjury in a capital case leading execution of an innocent person, hijacking, sabotage of the ...
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [207] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [208] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [209] [210] [211] or has a brutalization effect, [212] [213] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [214]
Anti-death penalty groups specifically argue that the death penalty is unfairly applied to African Americans. African Americans have constituted 34.5 percent of those persons executed since the death penalty's reinstatement in 1976 and 41 percent of death row inmates as of April 2018, [ 84 ] despite representing only 13 percent of the general ...