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Lemuel Warren Smith (born July 23, 1941) is an American convicted serial killer who was the first convict to kill an on-duty female corrections officer.Smith was already in prison for the murders of at least five people when he murdered prison guard Donna Payant at Green Haven Correctional Facility in 1981.
It was noted that Matthews faced only two counts of murder and while she was involved, the evidence did not affirmatively suggest that she intended to cause the death of these two victims, and Keene himself personally murdered at least four of the victims, and hence the decision to seek the death penalty solely against Keene was not proven to ...
The movie portrayed the events of the Smith murder with a focus on the involvement of Shari's sister Dawn, who later qualified for Miss America 1987 representing the state, in the case. [14] [13] Investigation Discovery's I, Witness, titled "The Smith Sisters", season 1, episode 2, aired on January 4, 2017. This 42-minute docudrama reflects the ...
Victim(s) Governor 1 George C. Mercer: White 44 M January 6, 1989 [a] Lethal injection: Cass [b] Karen Keeton John Ashcroft: 2 Gerald Smith White 32 M January 18, 1990 [c] St. Louis City: Karen Roberts [d] 3 Winford L. Stokes Jr. Black 39 M May 11, 1990 St. Louis: Pamela Benda 4 Leonard Marvin Laws White 41 M May 17, 1990 Clarence Williams and ...
A total of 21 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Indiana in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977. Before 1995, electrocution was the sole method of execution. This was replaced with lethal injection in 1995.
Susan Leigh Smith (née Vaughan; born September 26, 1971) is an American woman who was convicted of murdering her two sons, three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alexander, in 1994 by strapping her children in their car seats, and rolling her car containing her two children into John D. Long Lake in South Carolina.
On November 16, 2015, a Clackamas County jury sentenced Rogers to death for the fourth time. According to his defense attorney, Rogers would have waived all future appeals and allocuted to his crimes in exchange for a true life sentence instead of the death penalty. [8] On November 12, 2021, his death sentence was overturned for the fourth time.
On September 11, 2003, the jury found Smith guilty of both counts of murder, as well as one count each of robbery by firearm, burglary and arson. [22] On September 20, 2003, the jury of nine women and three men recommended the death penalty for each count of murder in Smith's case, [23] as well as 85 years' imprisonment for the other lesser ...