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Thomas Joseph Grasso (November 23, 1962 – March 20, 1995) was an American convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Oklahoma for the murder of 87-year-old Hilda Johnson, whom he strangled in Tulsa in December 1990. He also murdered 81-year-old Leslie Holtz in New York in July 1991. [ 1] He has become posthumously well known for his ...
On January 11, 1995, convicted killer Thomas J. Grasso, who had been sentenced to death by Oklahoma but was serving a sentence of 20 years to life in New York, was extradited from New York to Oklahoma to face execution. [16] Grasso was transported to Buffalo Niagara International Airport and flown to Oklahoma. He was executed on March 20, 1995.
Thomas J. Grasso (Executed on March 20, 1995) – Convicted murderer who was executed for strangling an 87-year-old woman. Roger Dale Stafford (Executed on July 1, 1995) – Convicted serial killer sentenced to death on Oct. 17, 1979, and spent over 15 years on death row for the 1978 Lorenz-Sirloin Stockade murders.
The following is a list of white defendants executed for killing a black victim.Executions of white defendants for killing black victims are rare. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, just 21 white people have been executed for killing a black person (less than 1.36 percent of all executions), whereas the number of black people executed for killing a ...
Method of execution Requested meal Roger Casement: Treason (enlisting help from the German Empire for the Easter Rising) UK: 1916: Hanging: Sacramental bread. Casement converted to Catholicism before his execution and stated he intended to go "to my death with the body of my God as my last meal." [11] Ruth Ellis: Murder: UK: 1955: Hanging ...
The Ada County Prosecutor’s Office alleged that Idaho death row prisoner Thomas Creech was responsible for the 50-year-old cold case murder of Daniel A. Walker Jr. in October 1974 in San ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976. The total amounts to 125 people, and all were executed by lethal injection . [ 1 ] Of the 125 people, 122 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.
The cold case murder of a decorated World War II veteran, killed "execution-style" in the Florida woods in 1968, has been solved 56 years later, ... Thomas J. Williams, now deceased, had confessed ...