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Richard Allen Davis (born June 2, 1954) is an American convicted murderer whose criminal record fueled support for the passage of California's "three-strikes law" for repeat offenders and the involuntary civil commitment act for sex offenders and predators.
A California judge will consider Friday whether to recall the death sentence against Richard Allen Davis, who in 1993 killed 12-year-old Polly Klaas after kidnapping her from her bedroom at ...
Gary Lee Davis: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Connecticut: 13 May 2005 [76] Michael Bruce Ross: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Delaware: 20 April 2012 [77] Shannon M. Johnson: aggravated murder: lethal injection: D Florida: 29 August 2024 [78] Loran Kenstley Cole: aggravated murder: lethal injection: D Georgia: 20 March 2024 ...
Polly Hannah Klaas (January 3, 1981 – October 1, 1993) was an American murder victim whose case garnered national media attention. On October 1, 1993, at age 12, she was kidnapped at knifepoint during a slumber party at her mother's home in Petaluma, California, and strangled to death.
Originally sentenced to death on March 16, 2002. [5] Transferred to MCFP Springfield. Convicted in 2002 of the 1997 kidnapping and murder of 19-year-old Rachel Timmerman on federal land; she had accused Gabrion of rape. Gabrion was the first person to receive a federal death sentence after the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988. [6 ...
Ralph E. Davis Black 61 M April 28, 1999 Boone: Susan Davis 38 Jessie Lee Wise Black 46 M May 26, 1999 St. Louis: Geraldine McDonald 39 Bruce Kilgore Black 39 M June 16, 1999 St. Louis City: Marilyn Wilkins 40 Robert Allen Walls White 34 M June 30, 1999 St. Louis: Fred Harmon 41 David R. Leisure White 49 M September 1, 1999 St. Louis City
Gabrion had previously raped Timmerman on August 7, 1996, and two days before the trial she went missing. The murder took place in Michigan, which does not have the death penalty, but the body was found in Manistee National Forest, which is federal land. On appeal, his defense team argued that they should consider any reasonable doubt they have ...
A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [18] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [19]