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Robert Mark Edwards (born 1961) is an American murderer who killed two female realtors in sexually-motivated murders, one in California in 1986 and another in Hawaii in 1993.
On April 24, 1972, the Supreme Court of California ruled in People v. Anderson that the state's current death penalty laws were unconstitutional. Justice Marshall F. McComb was the lone dissenter, arguing that the death penalty deterred crime, noting numerous Supreme Court precedents upholding the death penalty's constitutionality, and stating that the legislative and initiative processes were ...
On January 30, 1988, 27-year-old graphic artist Karen Toshima was shot and later died in a hospital after she got caught in the crossfire between two rival gang members in Los Angeles, California. Toshima's death signified the spread of gang violence outside the ghetto, as the shooting occurred in Westwood Village, a popular entertainment ...
Kupfer, a 24-year-old student at University of California, Los Angeles, was murdered by Shawn Laval Smith. [1] Smith, a 31-year-old man with an extensive criminal record, stabbed Kupfer to death in the Croft House store where she was working in the Hancock Park neighborhood. A few minutes later, a customer found Kupfer's stabbed body, covered ...
Law enforcement officials in Los Angeles have charged nine alleged gang members with committing six homicides, multiple shootings and various other crimes in a pocket of South L.A. hit hard by the ...
On August 28, 2019, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced it was seeking the death penalty against both Barron and Leiva. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Both pled not guilty to intentional first-degree murder with the special circumstance of infliction of torture on the victim. [ 11 ]
Gilley has been charged with capital murder in the death of his wife. He was released from custody after posting $1 million bail, and a judge granted a temporary joint conservatorship over the ...
Gwyneth Paltrow is showing supreme empathy for her loved ones experiencing unfathomable loss amid the ongoing Palisades Fire and other wildfires in Los Angeles, Calif. The Iron Man actress, like ...