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Coy Wayne "Elvis" Wesbrook (February 1, 1958 [1] – March 9, 2016) was an American mass murderer, convicted for the killing of five people in Channelview, Texas, on November 13, 1997.
Texas: June 22, 1874: Three men were members of the Taylor faction in the Sutton-Taylor feud. Members of the Sutton faction lynched the three men in revenge for murder of Sutton leader William E Sutton in Indianola, Texas on March 22, 1874 Randolph, John: African-American: Osceola: Mississippi: Arkansas: 1875
Charles Brooks Jr. (1982) first post-Gregg execution in Texas; Cal Coburn Brown (2010) last execution in Washington; Claude Buffet (1972) Henry John Burnett (1963) last execution in Scotland; Edwin Bush (1961) Elizabeth Butchill (1780) Frederick Bywaters (1923) Charles Campbell (1994) Jérôme Carrein (1977) Beatrice Cenci (1599) Brajakishore ...
Following the historic Lindbergh kidnapping (the abduction and murder of Charles Lindbergh's toddler son), the United States Congress passed a federal kidnapping statute—known as the Federal Kidnapping Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1) (popularly known as the Lindbergh Law, or Little Lindbergh Law)—which was intended to let federal authorities step in and pursue kidnappers once they had crossed ...
The State of Texas Death Row seal, taken at the Polunsky Unit. Allan B. Polunsky Unit (TL, formerly the Terrell Unit) is a prison in West Livingston, unincorporated Polk County, Texas, United States, located approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Livingston along Farm to Market Road 350.
Charles Brooks Jr. (September 1, 1942 – December 7, 1982), also known as Shareef Ahmad Abdul-Rahim, [1] was a convicted murderer who was the first person to be executed using lethal injection. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was the first prisoner executed in Texas since 1964, and the first African-American to be executed anywhere in the United States ...
Robert Lynn Pruett (September 18, 1979 – October 12, 2017) was a Texas man convicted and executed for the 1999 murder of TDCJ Correctional Officer Daniel Nagle (September 9, 1962 – December 17, 1999) at the McConnell Unit, Bee County. [1]