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Mathias Heck Jr., a prosecutor of Montgomery County, expressed his intention to seek the death penalty for both Keene and Matthews; under Ohio state law, the offence of aggravated murder carries the death penalty or life imprisonment. [13] [14] Keene reportedly confessed to the murders during police interrogation. [15]
On November 16, 2015, a Clackamas County jury sentenced Rogers to death for the fourth time. According to his defense attorney, Rogers would have waived all future appeals and allocuted to his crimes in exchange for a true life sentence instead of the death penalty. [8] On November 12, 2021, his death sentence was overturned for the fourth time.
Michael Dewayne Smith (June 24, 1982 – April 4, 2024), also known as the Hoover Killer, was an American convicted murderer who was given the death penalty for the murders of two people at different locations in Oklahoma City on February 22, 2002. Smith, who was part of the Oak Grove Posse gang, was suspected to have murdered another man in ...
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [207] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [208] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [209] [210] [211] or has a brutalization effect, [212] [213] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [214]
Lemuel Warren Smith (born July 23, 1941) is an American convicted serial killer who was the first convict to kill an on-duty female corrections officer.Smith was already in prison for the murders of at least five people when he murdered prison guard Donna Payant at Green Haven Correctional Facility in 1981.
The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty). As an example, Jerome Butler (the first person executed in Texas during the 1990 decade) was the 34th person executed since resumption of the death penalty.
The first victim to be killed at Dahmer's North 25th Street apartment. Smith was a male sex worker whom Dahmer encountered at a tavern. Dahmer gave Smith a drink laced with sleeping pills, then strangled him on his kitchen floor. [152] His skull was spray-painted and retained. June 14: Edward Warren Smith, 27. [346]
As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the United States, including 46 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]