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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.
George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14 was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.
The second youngest person to be executed, and the youngest to have a confirmed birth date (of October 21, 1929), was George Stinney, who was electrocuted in South Carolina at the age of 14 on June 16, 1944, after the bodies of two children (ages 7 and 11) were found close to his home. George Stinney maintained his innocence throughout his ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and exonerated by the governor in 2022 ...
Mosley, who murdered Back, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence. Donna Roberts: Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance. 21 years, 162 days [80] Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio. William Kessler Sapp
Two of the youngest woman on death row are speaking out and appealing to the public to help spare their lives.
When he entered Louisiana State Prison (Angola), he was the youngest person on death row. In 1976 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Roberts v. Louisiana that the state's death penalty law was unconstitutional, as it required mandatory sentences for convictions of certain capital charges, without consideration of mitigating factors. The ...
Hideko Hakamada, sister of former boxer Iwao Hakamada who has been on death row in Japan for 47 years, shows a picture of her young brother Iwao during an interview outside the Tokyo Detention ...