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Thomas and Clay's intention on Christmas Eve was to rob 32-year-old Roberto Rios, a small-time marijuana and cocaine dealer, of his drugs and money. In the early afternoon, Rios was duct taped to a chair, severely beaten, tortured with a pair of shears, shot twice in the head, and stabbed in the neck with a steak knife.
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]
Vermont has abolished the death penalty for all crimes, but has an invalid death penalty statue for treason. [87] When it abolished the death penalty in 2019, New Hampshire explicitly did not commute the death sentence of the sole person remaining on the state's death row, Michael K. Addison. [88] [89]
The ex-wife of a Los Angeles doctor has been arrested over his alleged "ambush-style" murder, alongside four other suspects. On Thursday, Dec. 12, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) shared ...
The penalty phase of the trial was then declared a mistrial. A second jury returned a verdict of death. The trial judge upheld the jury's verdict and sentenced Alfaro to death. [5] Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death in the gas chamber, and at the time of sentencing was the third woman on death row in California. [6]
The Idaho man had been charged with three counts of first-degree murder, insurance fraud, and conspiracy to commit murder and grand theft in connection with the 2019 deaths of his wife Tammy ...
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — The wife of a Minnesota missionary who was killed in Angola has been arrested in connection with his death, according to Lakes Area Vineyard Church in Detroit Lakes.
In April 1988, Zeigler's death sentence was overturned. [13] Zeigler was re-sentenced and again given the death penalty. [8] In 2005, Zeigler's request for a new trial was denied after DNA tests failed to conclude that Charlie Mays was the perpetrator. [5] [6] Zeigler's case was denied bloodstain DNA analysis in 2013 and 2016. [14] [15]