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She received a 12-year sentence for the Gentry case, and a life sentence for the Michael Buenoano case. In 1985 she was convicted of the murder of her first husband James Goodyear. [7] She was sentenced to death for his murder. She was convicted of multiple counts of grand theft (by insurance fraud).
In the late 1980s, Senator Alfonse D'Amato, from New York State, sponsored a bill to make certain federal drug crimes eligible for the death penalty as he was frustrated by the lack of a death penalty in his home state. [11] The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 restored the death penalty under federal law for drug offenses and some types of murder. [12]
Prior to completely abolishing the juvenile death penalty in 2005, any juvenile aged 16 years or older could be sentenced to death in some states, the last of whom was Scott Hain, executed at the age of 32 in Oklahoma for the 2003 burning of two people to death during a robbery at age 17. [121]
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Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for rape of an adult woman when the victim is not killed.; Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill.
Texas executed eight inmates last year and five this year. The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center ...
After the heirs reached an agreement, the estate, which had reached an estimated value of $100–110 million, was finally distributed in May 2011, 92 years after his death. [ 29 ] Real estate developer Henry G. Freeman established the Henry G. Freeman Jr. Pin Money Fund , which was intended to provide an annuity of $12,000 per year to the First ...
Elaine Silverberg, a 73-year-old widow, has been fighting JPMorgan Chase for 13 years over their refusal to pay her late husband's estimated $331 monthly pension.