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Two studies in the mid-2010s concluded that murder was the cause of half of hip hop musician deaths. The average age of death is between 25–30 years of age. Hip hop artists have a higher rate of homicide than artists of any other genre of music, ranging from five to 32 times higher. [1] [2]
Steven Michael Woods Jr. (April 17, 1980 – September 13, 2011) [1] was an American who was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas. [2] Woods was sentenced to death after a jury convicted him of the capital murders of Ronald Whitehead, 21, and Bethena Brosz, 19, on May 2, 2001, in The Colony, Texas. [3]
Many musicians have been murdered during their active career. Most of the musicians had been shot or stabbed to death. Some of them have received extensive media attention, including the murder of John Lennon in 1980, the killing of Marvin Gaye in 1984, the murder of Selena in 1995, the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996, the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. in 1997, the murder of XXXTentacion in ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020. To date, 26 people have been executed since 2020. To date, 26 people have been executed since 2020. All of the people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
David Martin Long (July 15, 1953 – December 8, 1999) was an American murderer who was sentenced to death for the murders of three women, and later confessed to committing seven murders. His case received media attention after he was placed on life support for a drug overdose two days before his scheduled execution.
Texas executed eight inmates last year and five this year. The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center ...
Anti-death penalty activists rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 to protest the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, which at the time was scheduled for September of that year ...
Taymor Travon McIntyre (born June 16, 2000), better known by his stage name Tay-K, is an American rapper and convicted murderer.He is best known for his 2017 song "The Race", which peaked at number 44 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).