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This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414 (2018), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held the Sixth Amendment guarantees a defendant the right to decide that the objective of his defense is to maintain innocence at all costs, even when counsel believes that admitting guilt offers the defendant the best chance to avoid the death penalty.
Serial killer who pled guilty to 13 murders in order to avoid the death penalty. Was sentenced to two death penalties the following year for other murders, but they will not be carried out until the earlier sentence is completed. But they commuted to 2 life sentences without parole. Eugene de Kock: 1996 [178] 2 life sentences plus 212 years ...
In October 1984, both McCollum and Brown were sentenced to death, with Brown becoming the youngest person on North Carolina's death row. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia used McCollum's case to justify the existence of the death penalty. [150] After appealing, both death sentences were overturned in 1988, and the two had retrials in 1991.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty). Thus, Charles Brooks Jr. was not only the first person executed in the 1980 decade, he was also the first person executed since Texas resumed the death penalty.
Tiny McCoy White M September 12, 1924 Hanging: Murder: Robert Ford Black M January 29, 1926 Hanging: Murder: Harry Sawyer Black M April 19, 1926 Hanging: Rape: Philip Euman Black M August 20, 1926 Hanging: Robbery and Murder: Henry Jackson Black M September 10, 1926 Hanging: Murder: Pierce Jefferies Black M February 18, 1927 Hanging: Rape ...
Roy Bruce Smith: White 50 M July 17, 1997 Prince William: Manassas Police Officer John Conner 41 Joseph Roger O'Dell III: White 55 M July 23, 1997 Virginia Beach: Helen Schartner 42 Carlton Jerome Pope: Black 35 M August 19, 1997 Portsmouth: Cynthia Gray 43 Mario Benjamin Murphy: Hispanic 25 M September 17, 1997 Virginia Beach: James Radcliff ...