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Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia. 10 years, 120 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois. Robert Gregory Bowers.
Death. Paul Warner Powell (April 13, 1978 – March 18, 2010) was an American who was executed for the murder of his friend Stacie Reed, 16, in 1999. He also raped, strangled, and stabbed the girl's sister Kristie, 14, who survived. Following the vacation of his capital murder conviction on appeal, Powell wrote letters boasting about his crimes ...
Double reed. A double reed[1] is a type of reed used to produce sound in various wind instruments. In contrast with a single reed instrument, where the instrument is played by channeling air against one piece of cane which vibrates against the mouthpiece and creates a sound, a double reed features two pieces of cane vibrating against each other.
Details. Date. June 6, 1996. Imprisoned at. Patrick O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Texas [1] Darlie Lynn Peck Routier (born January 4, 1970) is an American woman from Rowlett, Texas, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of her five-year-old son Damon in 1996. She has also been charged with capital murder in the death of her six ...
Imprisoned at. Allan B. Polunsky Unit, Texas. William Lewis Reece (born July 1, 1959) is an American serial killer, rapist and kidnapper. In 2015, he was linked via DNA to the 1997 cold case murder of a woman in Oklahoma, for which he was subsequently convicted and sentenced to death. Not long after, he confessed to three murders associated ...
v. t. e. Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [1][2] is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. [3] The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty. In the United States, capital punishment (killing a person as punishment for allegedly committing a crime) is a legal penalty in 27 states, throughout the country at the federal level, and in American Samoa. [b][1] It is also a legal penalty for some military offenses. Capital punishment has been abolished ...
1997. Imprisoned at. Allan B. Polunsky Unit. Rodney Rodell Reed (born December 22, 1967) is an American death row inmate who was convicted on May 18, 1998, by a Bastrop County District Court jury for the April 1996 abduction, rape, and murder of Stacey Stites, a 19-year-old resident of Giddings, Texas. [1][2] Although Reed initially denied ...