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Tison v. Arizona, 481 U.S. 137 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court qualified the rule it set forth in Enmund v. Florida (1982). Just as in Enmund, in Tison the Court applied the proportionality principle to conclude that the death penalty was an appropriate punishment for a felony murderer who was a major participant in the underlying felony and exhibited a ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1982 (when the state resumed executions) to 1989. All of the 33 people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
On January 15, 2001, 18-year-old Bridget Fay Townsend (June 26, 1982 – January 15, 2001) [1], the girlfriend of a local drug dealer, disappeared from her boyfriend's home in Bandera County, San Antonio, Texas. Townsend was missing for more than a year before a prisoner named Ramiro Felix Gonzales (November 5, 1982 – June 26, 2024), who was ...
Randall Greenawalt (February 24, 1949 – January 23, 1997) [1] was an American serial killer and mass murderer.Originally sentenced to life imprisonment for two murders committed in 1974, Greenawalt later became notorious for escaping together with fellow murderer Gary Tison and his three sons from prison, embarking on a two-week killing spree through Arizona and Colorado that left six people ...
A Killer in the Family is a 1983 American made-for-television crime film directed by Richard T. Heffron.The film is based on the Tison v.Arizona case, which took place in Arizona in 1978.
Last Rampage is a 2017 American crime drama film directed by Dwight Little.The screenplay by Alvaro Rodriguez and Jason Rosenblatt is based on the non-fiction book Last Rampage: The Escape of Gary Tison by University of Arizona Political Science Professor James W. Clarke, and details the true story of Tison's 1978 prison escape and subsequent murders. [2]
Atlantic Sounding Co. v. Townsend, 557 U.S. 404 (2009), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States holding that a seaman may recover punitive damages from his employer for failure to pay maintenance and cure. Townsend reversed a line of cases, starting with Guevara v.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1940 and 1949. During this period 78 people were executed by electrocution at the Huntsville Unit in Texas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]