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In 1999, Glaser established the Glaser Progress Foundation, "to build a more just, sustainable and humane world." [ 16 ] From 2011 to 2015, foundation assets have shrunk from $9 million to $5.7 million; annual grants have shrunk from $1.5 million to $267,000; overhead and expenses have grown slightly from $455,000 to $525,000. [ 17 ]
Anthony Allen Shore (June 25, 1962 – January 18, 2018) was an American serial killer and child molester who was responsible for the murders of one woman and three girls. He was active from 1986 to 2000, and became known as the "Tourniquet Killer" because of his use of a ligature with either a toothbrush or bamboo stick to tighten or loosen the ligature.
Robert Leslie Roberson III (born November 10, 1966) is an American man convicted and on death row for the murder of his two-year-old daughter in 2002. Roberson was accused of shaking his daughter and causing her death, and was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2003.
Race White 62 61% Black 38 38% Native American 1 1% Age 20–29 4 4% 30–39 28 28% 40–49 41 40% 50–59 20 20% 60–69 7 7% 70–79 1 1% Date of execution
Robert Lee Willie (January 2, 1958 – December 28, 1984) was an American serial killer who killed at least three people in Louisiana from the late 1970s to 1980. He was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 18-year-old Faith Hathaway and was executed in 1984.
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [207] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [208] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [209] [210] [211] or has a brutalization effect, [212] [213] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [214]
Walter Leroy Moody Jr. (March 24, 1935 – April 19, 2018) was an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to death and executed in Alabama for the 1989 letter bomb murder of Robert S. Vance, a U.S. federal judge serving on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
[2] [10] Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976, Williams was the first person to be executed in Louisiana, and the tenth in the United States. [11] He was also the second black person to be executed in the United States since 1976, as well as the first person to be executed for killing a black victim. [2] [7] [12]