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A Birmingham grand jury indicted Watson on murder and kidnapping charges in October 2010. In July 2011, the Circuit Court set the trial date for 13 February 2012; Watson was released on a $100,000 bond. [35]
Sentence increased to the death penalty on 6 September 2006. Sentence reduced to life imprisonment in March 2008. [19] Scott Rush: Chelmer, Queensland: Drug trafficking (heroin) 17 April 2005: 15 December 2024: Sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 February 2006. [17] Sentence increased to the death penalty on 6 September 2006.
In 1973 the Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 of the Commonwealth abolished the death penalty for federal offences. It provided in Section 3 that the Act applied to any offence against a law of the Commonwealth, the Territories or under an Imperial Act, and in s. 4 that "[a] person is not liable to the punishment of death for any offence".
The remaining manslaughter and grievous bodily harm charges were later dropped in exchange for Patel pleading guilty to two counts related to him dishonestly gaining registration and two counts related to dishonestly gaining employment in Queensland. [40] Patel was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence for those fraud charges. [40]
On 17 December 2009, he won the right to a retrial, due in part to the key witness for the prosecution, Greg King, facing potential criminal charges himself at the time of the original trial. [4] He was released on bail on 21 December, but was again convicted of murder on 22 July 2010.
QLD Murder, rape, abduction Life imprisonment plus 18 years 37 February 1990 [128] Dennis Sore QLD Murder Life imprisonment 43 February 2023 [129] Anthony Harvey WA Murder ×5 5× life imprisonment 25 July 2019 [130] Harvey is the first person in Western Australia to receive a 'never to be released' order. [131] Benjamin Hoffmann NT
Before a life sentence on 7 September 2000 for the abduction, rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl, Keyra Steinhardt, in Rockhampton, Queensland, Leonard Fraser had spent almost 20 of the preceding 22 years behind bars for the rape of women. He even raped a terminally ill cancer patient with whom he had been living with in early 1997.
Rupert Maxwell (Max) Stuart (c. 1932 [notes 1] – 21 November 2014 [1]) was an Indigenous Australian who was convicted of murder in 1959. His conviction was subject to several appeals to higher courts, [2] [3] the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and a Royal Commission, [4] all of which upheld the verdict.