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Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . 10 years, 83 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois . Robert Gregory Bowers.
Linked to 4 other murders; claimed to have killed 22 people. George Barrett. Hanging. Murder of a federal officer. March 24, 1936. Marion County Jail, Indiana. The first person to be executed under a law that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Arthur Gooch.
While confessing to other crimes in return for avoiding the death penalty, Krajcir said he attacked a woman in Mount Vernon and that a "black guy" had been arrested for the crime. Reporter Carly O'Keefe linked the crime to White's stabbing; after work from the Illinois Innocence Project and unsuccessful appeals, Governor Bruce Rauner granted ...
This is a list of people executed in Virginia after 1976. The Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia, issued in 1976, allowed for the reinstitution of the death penalty in the United States. Capital punishment in Virginia was abolished by the Virginia General Assembly in 2021. [1] [2]
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Oklahoma . The state has executed the second largest number of convicts in the United States (after Texas) since re-legalization following Gregg v. Georgia in 1976. [ 1] Oklahoma also has the highest number of executions per capita in the United States. [ 2]
Sarah Dazley (1843) known as "the Potton Poisoner". Williamina "Minnie" Dean (1895) only woman executed in New Zealand. Westley Allan Dodd (1993) first post- Gregg execution in Washington. Martin Dumollard (1862) known as "the Monster of Montluel". Theodore Durrant (1898) known as "the Demon in the Belfry".
Theodor Kocher (1841–1917) — thyroid surgery; first surgeon to win the Nobel Prize. Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781–1826) — inventor of the stethoscope. Janet Lane-Claypon (1877–1967) — pioneer of epidemiology. Thomas Linacre (1460–1524) — founder of Royal College of Physicians.
Murder of John Wait. John Black, Mahlon Christie, Isaac Kent, and George Orcote. 4 June 1814 (other accounts indicate date was in the spring of 1812 or around New Year's Eve 1813) [ 15] Shot. Desertion. James Graham [ 15] 29 July 1814. Hanging. Murders of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGiffrey.