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This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2000. Eighty-five people were executed in the United States in 2000. Forty of them were in the state of Texas; the most carried out within a single year in Texas state history. Two ( Betty Lou Beets and Christina Marie Riggs) were female. Five (four in Alabama and one in Virginia) were ...
2012. Su Chien-ho (蘇建和), Liu Bing-lang (劉秉郎) and Chuang Lin-hsun (莊林勳) were sentenced to death for the 1991 murder of Wu Ming-han and his wife Yeh Ying-lan in Xizhi District, Taipei County, Taiwan. They were acquitted in 2012. [ 10] 2016.
James T. Harris, also known as Pete, was a White Knights investigator. The 30-year-old Harris was keeping tabs on the three civil rights workers' every move. Oliver R. Warner, 54, known as Pops, was a Meridian grocery owner and member of the White Knights. Herman Tucker lived in Hope, Mississippi, a few miles from the Neshoba County Fair ...
The massacre in Colfax gained headlines of national newspapers from Boston to Chicago. [49] Various government forces spent weeks trying to round up members of the white paramilitaries, and a total of 97 men were indicted. In the end, Beckwith charged nine men and brought them to trial for violations of the Enforcement Act of 1870.
Date of execution County Victim(s) Age at offense Age at execution Governor 1 George C. Mercer: White January 6, 1989 [a] Cass [b] Karen Keeton 34 44 John Ashcroft: 2 Gerald Smith White January 18, 1990 [c] St. Louis City: Karen Roberts 23 32 3 Winford L. Stokes Jr. Black May 11, 1990 St. Louis: Pamela Benda 27 39 4 Leonard Marvin Laws White ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 22 people have been executed since 2020. To date, 22 people have been executed since 2020. All of the people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
List of people executed in Virginia. Between 1982 and 2017, a total of 113 people were executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia. All were convicted of capital murder; all but one were male. Between 1982 and 1990, all executions were carried out at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. After the prison closed in 1991, all subsequent ...
August 5, 2024 at 5:12 PM. [Getty Images] A Virginia man has been charged with making violent threats on social media against Kamala Harris shortly after she began her campaign for president ...