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Gerald Keith Hege, Sr. (born 1948) is an American retired law enforcement officer who served as the Sheriff of Davidson County, North Carolina from 1994 until 2004. A veteran of the Vietnam War, he became famous for his highly eccentric behavior as sheriff, his internationally known television show, and eventually for the charges of corruption that led to his resignation.
Website. www.clevelandcounty.com. Cleveland County is a county located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the western Piedmont, on the southern border of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 99,519. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Shelby. [ 2 ]
A Cleveland County jail inmate died at a local hospital Friday following a medical episode, according to jail officials. According to a news release issued by the jail, 36-year-old William Kenneth ...
Murdered three women and one man in Dallas County, Texas, having sex with the corpses of two of his victims [36] Barfield, Velma: 1971–1978 1 6 Executed 1984 North Carolina serial poisoner who was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment and the first since 1962.
Dan Kane. July 22, 2024 at 12:03 PM. A federal grand jury in Raleigh is seeking information about a domestic violence monitoring program that has drawn concerns over how state lawmakers set it up ...
Summary of scheduled executions. As of September 20, 2024, a total of 35 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in six U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 12 pending motions to set an execution date across five states. [3]
Murders of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGiffrey. Mary Antoine. 30 September 1814. " [K]illed a 'female' who had 'alienated her husband's affection'"; daughter of Abram Antoine [q.v.]; first reported execution of a woman in the State of New York. Charles Thompson and James Peters (aka Peterson) [15] August 1815.
In the United States in 2016, women made up 9.8% of the incarcerated population in adult prisons and jails. [12][13] Comparing English-speaking developed countries; [9] the overall incarceration rate in the US was 531 per 100,000 population of all ages in 2021, [12] the incarceration rate of Canada was 85 per 100,000 in 2020, [14] England and ...