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Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer, and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. [1] She was 20 when convicted of the torture murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, which she committed at age 18.
Leavell-Keaton's husband John DeBlase was also sentenced to death. She is the first woman sentenced to death in Mobile County. Christie Michelle Scott [9] In August 2008, a blaze broke out at the home of Christie Michelle Scott in Russellville, Alabama, killing her six-year-old son, Mason. Scott had purchased a $100,000 life insurance policy on ...
Georgia, 18 women have been executed in the United States. [1] Women represent about 1.12 percent of the 1,612 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [ 2 ]
Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death by gas chamber and the first woman in Orange County, California, to get the death penalty. Alejandro Avila: Kidnap, rape and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion. 19 years, 276 days Hector Ayala: Murdered three men during an attempted robbery of an automobile body shop. 35 years, 78 days Ronaldo Ayala
He strangled the women within hours of each other on October 6, 2019 in Cape Coral. The jury voted in favor of the death penalty 9-3 in Melton’s case, and 10-2 in Ruiz’s murder. In Florida ...
Toni Jo Henry (née Annie Beatrice McQuiston; [1] January 3, 1916 – November 28, 1942) was the only woman ever to be executed in Louisiana's electric chair. [2] Married to Claude 'Cowboy' Henry, she decided to break her husband out of jail where he was serving a fifty-year sentence in the Texas State Penitentiary for murder.
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"We hope that the community will not rush to judgment while the investigation is ongoing," the woman's public defender said in a statement. Woman murdered officer with her car, police say; she ...