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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana before 1972, when capital punishment was briefly abolished by the Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia . For people executed by Louisiana after the restoration of capital punishment by the Supreme Court's ruling in Gregg v.
Robert Clem's documentary film on March, entitled William March/Company K (2004), includes excerpts from Clem's feature adaptation of Company K and focuses on the effects of March's painful war experience on his later life. [69] The documentary was shown at Birmingham, Alabama's Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival [70] and aired on PBS in 2004. [71]
March 15, 1988 [d] Caddo: Shreveport Police Officer Glen Tompkins [3] Buddy Roemer: 17 Leslie Lowenfield: Black 34 M April 13, 1988 Jefferson: 5 murder victims [e] 18 Edward R. Byrne Jr. [f] White 28 M June 14, 1988 Bossier: Roberta June Johnson 19 Dalton Prejean: Black 30 M May 18, 1990 Lafayette: Louisiana State Police Trooper Donald ...
Virginia Eliza Clemm was born in 1822 [1] and named after an older sister who had died at age two [2] only ten days earlier. [3] Her father William Clemm, Jr. was a hardware merchant in Baltimore. [4] He had married Maria Poe, Virginia's mother, on July 12, 1817, [5] after the death of his first wife, Maria's first cousin Harriet. [6]
Meanwhile, at the Clay statue, attorney William S. Parkerson was exhorting the people of New Orleans to "set aside the verdict of that infamous jury, every one of whom is a perjurer and a scoundrel." [ 38 ] When the speech was over, the multi-racial crowd [ 39 ] [ 40 ] [ 41 ] marched to the prison, chanting, "We want the Dagoes."
Nathaniel Robert Code Jr. (born March 12, 1956) is an American serial killer and rapist who committed between eight and twelve murders in the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, between 1984 and 1987. Among his killings was the mass murder of four members of the Cheney-Culbert family on Cedar Grove in 1985, the crimes for which he was nicknamed The ...
For much of his childhood in the late 1940s and early '50s, Robert Libman would keep his father company as he drove the back roads of central Illinois. With his son sitting next to him, Clarence ...
Poe and Clemm family tree. William Henry Leonard, who went by the name Henry, [1]: 193 was born circa January 30, 1807, to traveling actors Eliza Poe and David Poe, Jr., four months after their troupe began performing in Boston. [2]: 5 Their second son, Edgar, was born on January 19, 1809, and a daughter, Rosalie, was born in December 1810.