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On the evening of Sunday, April 26, 1987, 14-year-old Kerrick Majors, accompanied by four of his friends, headed to Gallatin Road in East Nashville, Tennessee.At around 7:00 p.m., the group came across a table covered in stuff that belonged to three white homeless people: 24-year-old Donald Ray Middlebrooks, his wife, 17-year-old Tammy Middlebrooks, and their companion, 16-year-old Robert ...
Hall was the second blind prisoner to be executed for murder since the 1976 resumption of capital punishment in the U.S., and 13 years before him, convicted killer Clarence Ray Allen, who was put to death in California in 2006, was the first blind inmate on death row to be executed.
Meat sweats is a colloquial term referring to the idea that eating a meat-heavy meal will cause individuals to perspire profusely. [1] Its scientific basis is unfounded. [ 2 ] [ 1 ]
The Romines were subsequently murdered by their kidnappers, who both tortured the victims to death and even raped Sheila Romines. The murderers – Stephen Michael West (September 16, 1962 – August 15, 2019) and Ronald David "Ronnie" Martin (born 1969) – were arrested the following day and charged with the double murder.
In December 2008, Pike's latest request for a new trial was turned down and she was returned to death row. [8] With this denial Pike's allowed appeals under the rules and procedures of the State of Tennessee's criminal justice system were exhausted. [10] In May 2014, Pike's lawyers entered an appeal in the federal court system. [11]
When they claimed they were lost, the officers ordered the group out of the van and conducted a search, finding a knife, as well as a photo album belonging to the Lillelid family. They ordered the group to re-enter the United States, where American border patrol officers searched them and subsequently took them to an Arizona jail. [ 1 ]
The victims were the mother, father, and uncle of perpetrator Michael Cummins; the uncle's girlfriend; and two members of the girlfriend's family. [4] [5] One of the deceased victims was a 12-year-old girl who was partially nude but was not sexually assaulted. All of the deaths were caused by blunt-force trauma to the head.
4 murder victims [a] 5 Steve Henley: White 55 M February 4, 2009 Jackson: Lethal injection Fred Stafford and Edna Stafford 6 Cecil C. Johnson Jr. Black 53 M December 2, 2009 Davidson: Bobby Bell Jr., James Moore, and Charles House 7 William Ray "Billy" Irick: White 59 M August 9, 2018 Knox: Paula Kay Dyer Bill Haslam: 8 Edmund George Zagorski ...