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During the sentencing phase of the trial, it was revealed that five months before the murder, Nance had been released from a twenty-year sentence for beating two Oklahoma girls in 1982. The jury found that there were no mitigating circumstances in the case, and recommended that the judge sentence Nance to death, which he did on March 31, 1994.
The production had 79 filming days over a 10-month period, starting in the weeks after the murders through the trials and convictions, at the actual Arkansas locations. [2] The movie marks the first time Metallica allowed their music to be used in a movie. [1] A decade later, the directors made Metallica: Some Kind of Monster about the band. [3]
Misskelley was convicted by a jury of one count of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder. The court sentenced him to life plus 40 years in prison. His conviction was appealed and affirmed by the Arkansas Supreme Court. [93] On August 19, 2011, Misskelley, along with Baldwin and Echols, entered an Alford plea. Judge David ...
Arkansas authorities are searching for two “dangerous” inmates who were discovered missing from a detention center Monday morning, including one who was being held on probable cause for murder ...
Clay King Smith (July 25, 1970 – May 8, 2001) was an American mass murderer executed by the state of Arkansas for the March 25, 1998, murders of Misty Erwin (age 20), Shelley Sorg (24), Shelley's two children Sean Sorg (5) and Taylor Sorg (3), and babysitter Samantha Rhodes (12) at his home near Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
A manhunt is underway for two inmates who escaped an Arkansas detention center this week, including a capital murder suspect. Noah Roush, 22, and Jatonia Bryant, 23, were discovered to be missing ...
The case concerns Derrick Chappell, 41, Morton Johnson, 44, and Samuel Grasty, 47, who each were convicted in separate trials of second-degree murder and other charges in 2000 and 2001 and ...
Willett was the 4th condemned inmate to be put to death in 1999 in Arkansas and the 21st person executed by the state of Arkansas since Furman v. Georgia , 408 U.S. 238 (1972), after new capital punishment laws were passed in Arkansas and that came into force on March 23, 1973.