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Paul Crump (April 2, 1930 – October 11, 2002) was a death row inmate who gained international notoriety and parole after writing the novel Burn, Killer, Burn. Crimes and prison sentences [ edit ]
Anthony Porter (December 14, 1954 – July 25, 2021) was a Chicago resident known for having been exonerated in 1999 of the murder in 1982 of two teenagers on the South Side of the city. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1983, and served 17 years on death row.
Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966.
I Am a Killer is a television documentary series on Netflix and Crime+Investigation UK that features interviews with death row inmates. [1] [2] Season 2 aired in the United Kingdom in 2019 and aired internationally on Netflix from 31 January 2020. [3] On 30 August 2022 Season 3 aired on Netflix in the United States. [4]
On Death Row is a television mini-series written and directed by Werner Herzog about capital punishment in the United States. The series grew out of the same project which produced Herzog's documentary film Into the Abyss. The series first aired in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2012, on Channel 4. [2]
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death.The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.
On June 13, a jury agreed on the existence of an aggravating circumstance and sentenced Jones to death. [b] [20] [21] Jones was one of two men sentenced to death in South Carolina in 2019. [22] As of 2023 he is awaiting execution on death row. [23] According to Lexington County officials, South Carolina taxpayers paid $647,653.27 for Jones's ...
He committed his first murder on August 13, 1993, when he stabbed his neighbor, 18-year-old Tricia Pacaccio, to death on her back doorstep. Her father found her body the following morning. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Gargiulo moved to Los Angeles in 1998, allegedly to escape the scrutiny of the police in Illinois, [ 5 ] and committed two murders and an ...