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Jones was also sentenced to death in Florida for a similar murder committed just days after these murders, and is suspected of yet another killing in that state. His first death sentence was overturned, but he was found guilty in a second trial in 2015. [94] Donald Ray Middlebrooks: Tortured and murdered 14-year-old Kerrick Majors. 35 years ...
The Baxter Althane disaster in autumn 2001 was a series of 53 sudden deaths of kidney failure patients in Spain, Croatia, Italy, Germany, Taiwan, Colombia and the USA (mainly Nebraska and Texas).
On March 31, 2012, an Angelina County jury convicted Saenz of murdering five patients and injuring five others. [11] [12] Prosecutors sought the death penalty, but on April 2, 2012, Saenz was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the five murders, plus three consecutive 20-year sentences for aggravated assault. [4]
A number of states collect some form of death data from all their jails. In others, the reporting process is far from comprehensive. Some, like Texas, collect information from counties but not from municipalities. Others, like Louisiana, only track deaths of inmates in state custody — a tiny fraction of the jail population.
So far, we've counted more than 800 deaths, but based on federal data, we suspect there have been more. On average, nearly 1,000 people died in jails each year between 2000 and 2013, according to the Department of Justice. Use this page to follow our coverage and find the latest reports citing our data.
In a 1983 retrial, he was found not guilty of all charges. He died in 2020. [6] [7] 1989 Masao Akahori was convicted in 1954 at the age of 24 of raping and murdering a schoolgirl. In 1989, he became the fourth death row inmate in Japan to be released. [8] [9] [6] 2024 Iwao Hakamada was acquitted in a retrial by the Shizuoka District Court. [10]
When reporting a new death, seek to identify the inmate's name, age, arrest date (to show how long the person was in custody), alleged crime (or whether that person was convicted) and any information about the circumstances of the death. It's important to remember that many people in jail have not been found guilty.
A Knox County woman was receiving a dialysis treatment when the power cut out after 24 minutes. She died three days later.