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Blackmon was convicted in the death of her two-year-old adopted daughter, Dominiqua Bryant. According to an autopsy report, the child suffered a fractured skull, several broken bones, bruises and a shoeprint on her chest. 22 years, 8 months and 13 days Because the victim was under the age of 14, Blackmon was eligible for the death penalty.
Walter Leroy Moody Jr. (March 24, 1935 – April 19, 2018) was an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to death and executed in Alabama for the 1989 letter bomb murder of Robert S. Vance, a U.S. federal judge serving on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
Passing the sentence on Frederick Seddon: Mr Justice Bucknill, wearing a black cap, passes a sentence of death on a convicted murderer (1912). The black cap is a plain black fabric square formerly worn as symbolic headgear by English, Welsh, Irish and Northern Irish judges in criminal cases when passing a sentence of death .
Daniel Lewis Lee (January 31, 1973 – July 14, 2020) [1] was an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and convicted felon.In 1999, Lee was convicted as an accomplice to Chevie Kehoe in the 1996 murders of William Frederick Mueller, Nancy Ann Mueller, and their young daughter Sarah Elizabeth Powell, during a robbery at their Arkansas home.
Gary Lee Sampson (September 29, 1959 – December 21, 2021) was an American bank robber and later spree killer who killed three people and was sentenced to death by a federal jury in Massachusetts. During three days in 2001, Sampson killed three strangers – retiree Philip McCloskey in Marshfield, Massachusetts , college student Jonathan Rizzo ...
In a 61-page ruling by U.S. District Judge Harry Sandlin Mattice Jr. issued on March 11, 2016, all grounds were rejected and the requested commutation was denied. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] On August 22, 2019, having heard the same appeal by Pike's lawyers on October 1, 2018, the three judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ...
Nia Wilson (November 12, 1999 – July 22, 2018) was a cheerleader and a rapper. She dreamed of having a dance studio. She and her cousins were in a music group called Girlz N The Hood. Their album Fake Shit was released post-Wilson's death; the group planned to reshoot the video but they did not release it until after she passed. [5]
The second woman, Christa Pike, who was convicted in 1996 for having tortured to death a fellow Job Corps dormitory resident, remains on death row. In 2023, Tennessee was debating about using firing squad. [11] [12] In 2024, Tennessee saw moves to allow the death penalty for defendants convicted of child rape. [13]