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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 ...
Sabrina Butler did not testify at her trial. Sabrina was convicted of both murder and child abuse following her trial, and even though she was only a teenager, she became the only woman on Mississippi's Death Row in 1990, condemned to die by lethal injection.
As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the United States, including 46 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
The Mississippi Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions and death sentences of a man in the killings of eight people, including his mother-in-law and a deputy sheriff, at three different crime ...
Lisa Jo Chamberlin (born September 30, 1972) is an American woman convicted of the 2004 double murder of Vernon Hulett and Linda Heintzelman in Mississippi. Chamberlin and her then boyfriend Roger Lee Gillett killed the two victims inside Hulett's house in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and dismembered their bodies, before storing the body parts in a freezer, which was later taken to an abandoned ...
A Black man convicted of capital murder in the stabbing death of an 84-year-old Mississippi woman walked out of prison a free man after a judge overturned the conviction. Eddie Lee Howard, now 67 ...
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — A man who raped and killed a 16-year-old girl in Mississippi was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday, becoming the second inmate executed in the state in 10 years.
The $41 million Unit 32, the state's designated location for male death row inmates, opened in August 1990. [5] [15] Previously Unit 17 housed MSP's male death row. [16] On March 18, 1998 the legislature made another amendment, removing the gas chamber as a method of execution. [13] The lethal injection table was first used in 2002. [9]