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The last person executed on "Gruesome Gertie" was Andrew Lee Jones, on July 22, 1991. During its fifty years, "Gruesome Gertie" was used for a total of 87 executions. It now sits at the Louisiana Prison Museum in Angola, Louisiana. "Gruesome Gertie" was reinstated in 2024, along with the gas chamber.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electrocution and 8 via lethal injection.
Leslie Dale Martin (April 24, 1967 – May 10, 2002) [1] was an American convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Louisiana for the June 1991 rape and murder of 19-year-old Christina Burgin. [1] He remains the most recent person executed involuntarily in Louisiana. [2] [3]
Elmo Patrick "Pat" Sonnier (February 21, 1950 – April 5, 1984) was a convicted American murderer and rapist in Louisiana who was executed by electrocution at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Louisiana on April 5, 1984. Sonnier was sentenced to death on April 25, 1978, for the November 5, 1977, rape and murder of Loretta Ann Bourque, 18, and ...
Louisiana: 83–153 Black people killed at courthouse and as prisoners afterwards. [22] Coushatta massacre: 1874 Aug Coushatta: Louisiana: 11–26 Six whites, remainder black killed as political intimidation. [23] [24] Election riot of 1874: 1874 Nov 3 Eufaula: Alabama: 8 70 injured. White League Democrats drove African American Republicans ...
Including one death due to a tornado in New Orleans; at least seven other deaths also occurred in Canada 29 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster [66] Accident – coal mine Montcoal, West Virginia: 28 1913 Arcadia Hotel fire: Fire (building) Boston: 28 1927 Pittsburgh gasometer explosion: Accident – explosion Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 28 1949
Felix Moncla was born in Mansura, Louisiana, on October 21, 1926, to Felix Sr. (1894–1957), a high school science teacher, principal and veteran of World War I, and Yvonne Beridon Moncla (1900–1961), a seamstress. He also had two older sisters, Leonie and Muriel Ann.
Rescuers at the crash site of Kam Air Flight 904. The tail of the plane is on the right. 19 March 1998 - An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727-228 crashes into a mountain, killing all 45 aboard. Kam Air Flight 904 crashed in the Pamir Mountains during a snow storm on 3 February 2005. All 105 people on board were killed, and the cause remains ...