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Texas' top criminal appeals court has stopped Thursday evening's scheduled execution of a Texas inmate who had been condemned for killing another prisoner more than 26 years ago. William Speer, 49 ...
The last execution in Texas to be postponed by appeals on the day of the execution was on Oct. 26. William Speer's execution was postponed after an appeals court ruling came after allegations were ...
On July 11, 1997, William Speer (then TDCJ#668485), killed a 47-year old prisoner in his cell. Speer was sentenced to death and became TDCJ#999398. He is now in the Polunsky Unit. [3] His co-defendant Anibal Canales was also sentenced to death. [4]
William Morva (2017) last execution in Virginia; Leon Moser (1995) Norishyam s/o Mohamed Ali (1999) Shukri Mustafa (1978) Mun Se-gwang (1974) Khwan-On Natthaphon (2002) Keith Dwayne Nelson (2020) Hester Rebecca Nepping (1812) Susan Newell (1923) last woman executed in Scotland; Solomon Ngobeni (1989) last execution in South Africa\ Oh Laye Koh ...
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 7, 2016 Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. 53 24 29 Male White Florida: Lethal injection [2] [3] 2 January 20, 2016 Richard Allen Masterson: 43 28 15 Texas [4] [5] [6] 3 January 21, 2016 Christopher Eugene Brooks: 20 23 Alabama [7] 4 ...
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
Sixty people were executed in the United States in 2005. Nineteen of them were in the state of Texas.One (Frances Elaine Newton) was female.[1] [2] The states of Connecticut and Maryland carried out their last executions in 2005, with both states having since abolished capital punishment.
The United States Air Force executed three airmen by hanging between 1950 and 1954. The execution of Robert E. Keller was conducted under the authority of the 1920 Articles of War, and those of Burns and Dennis Jr. were carried out under a short-lived revised version of the Articles of War popularly known as the Elston Act of 1948. [citation ...