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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 ...
A day later, on March 18, 1986, after police investigations linked both Martin and West to the case, the duo were arrested for the murders, and subsequently charged in court with kidnapping, rape and murder. Under Tennessee state law, for the most serious charge of murder, both men could face the death penalty. [1] [4]
Christa Pike was born in 1976 to Carissa Hansen and Emil Glenn Pike in Beckley, West Virginia. Her parents had a tumultuous relationship, being married for two years, divorced for a year after Hansen was found to be cheating, and remarried for another two years after Hansen attempted suicide. [2]
During sentencing, Blackwood commented that "the psychological torture of this unfortunate victim was immense." He also called the crime "the most horrible" murder case he had seen. [24] [110] [111] In 2014 the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals denied Coleman's request for a new trial and upheld her sentence.
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.
Oscar Franklin Smith (born March 25, 1950 [1]) is an American man convicted of capital murder in Tennessee and sentenced to death. [1] Smith was scheduled to be executed on April 21, 2022, however, his execution was temporarily reprieved by Governor Bill Lee due to an oversight in the preparation for lethal injection.
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 ]
Nicholas Todd Sutton was born on July 15, 1961, in Morristown, Tennessee.His mother abandoned him at birth, while his father, a mentally-ill and verbally abusive alcoholic, was constantly detained in either mental institutions or various jails. [2]