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George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14, was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.
Joseph Corcoran, an Allen County man convicted of killing four people, is set to be the first death row inmate to be executed in Indiana in 15 years.. The Indiana Supreme Court on Wednesday set ...
Richard Alexander (exonerated convict) Richard Alexander is an Indiana man who was wrongfully convicted of rape and later exonerated by DNA evidence. Years later, on September 17, 2020, Alexander was charged with the murder of Catherine Minix, who was found stabbed to death. [1] Minix had previously filed a protective order against Alexander ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Indiana since its statehood. A total of 20 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Indiana in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977. Before 1995, electrocution was the sole method of execution.
Convicted killer Joseph Corcoran is one of eight men held on Death Row at the Indiana State Prison in ... date for the execution of convicted ... for fatally shooting four people on July 26, 1997. ...
David Ray Camm (born March 23, 1964) [1] is a former trooper of the Indiana State Police (ISP) who spent 13 years in prison after twice being wrongfully convicted of the murders of his wife, Kimberly, and his two young children at their home in Georgetown, Indiana, on September 28, 2000. He was released from custody in 2013 after his third ...
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Indiana has eight people on death row. In 2020, the first federal execution in 17 years at the time was carried out at a federal prison in Indiana .
Executed No Thompson was convicted and executed for the rape and murder of Ginger Fleischli, a crime for which he is widely believed to be innocent. [125] [126] [127] He was mainly convicted on the evidence of two notorious informants who claimed Thompson had admitted committing the crime in jail. The prosecution did not inform the judge or the ...