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Born in Midnight in Humphreys County, Mississippi, he was executed in 2005 by the State of Mississippi. At 77 years old, Nixon, who was a World War II veteran, was the oldest person executed since 1976 and, according to the Espy Files compiled by M. Watt Espy , the oldest person executed in the United States since Joe Lee in Virginia at the age ...
He was subsequently executed on this date, at 8:42 p.m. [13] [14] Aged 83 years and 26 days at execution, he was the oldest inmate executed in the United States in the post-Furman era, surpassing the previous record set by the execution of John B. Nixon Sr., who was executed in Mississippi in December 2005 at the age of 77 years, 8 months and ...
Viva Leroy Nash (September 10, 1915 – February 12, 2010) was an American career criminal and one of the oldest prisoners in history as well as one of the longest incarcerated (for a total of 70 years), spending almost 80 years behind bars. He was the oldest American on death row at the time of his death in February 2010. [1]
The most recent person to be executed by the military is U.S. Army Private John A. Bennett, executed on April 13, 1961, for rape and attempted murder. Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, only one person has been executed for a purely military offense: Private Eddie Slovik, who was executed on January 31, 1945, after being convicted of ...
The oldest is 80. One killed his 5 children. ... is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. It will be the first execution since 2011. ... 32 people sit on death row in South Carolina ...
Lisbetha Olsdotter (1679), Swedish cross-dresser and early female soldier (disguised as a man). Dominique Phinot (c.1556), French composer of the Renaissance [6] James Pratt and John Smith (1835), last two executions for sodomy in the UK; Tibira do Maranhão (1614), Brazilian Tupinambá executed for sodomy by French colonizers; Mervyn Tuchet (1631)
Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was sentenced to death for the June 1990 fatal shooting of Houston police officer James Irby.
Carl Wayne Buntion (March 30, 1944 – April 21, 2022) [2] was an American man convicted of capital murder in Texas and sentenced to death. On April 21, 2022, at the age of 78, he became the oldest inmate to be executed in Texas and the state's first execution of 2022. [3] [4]