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Her case garnered considerable media attention, which spurred debates about child protection in part due to the prior convictions and lengthy sentences for the perpetrators of aggravated child abuse against her, involving a high-profile trial, and the nature of the abuse and circumstances surrounding her subsequent abduction and murder.
Ronald James Ward Jr. (1966 – April 11, 2014) was an American serial killer who murdered at least three women and one man in the span of several months in 2000. Initially convicted for the murder of Craig Petrich in Montana, he was later linked by DNA evidence to three other murders, which had occurred in Arkansas and California. [1]
[4] [5] He was convicted on August 2, 1983, and sentenced to death. In 1993, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas ruled the state had failed to prove that Fairchild had killed Mason, and ordered his sentence commuted to life without parole. [ 2 ]
Before his release, court records from his 2000 criminal case show a state psychologist and counselors had assessed and advised him that, to avoid re-offending, he should refrain from alcohol ...
During the sentencing phase of the trial, it was revealed that five months before the murder, Nance had been released from a twenty-year sentence for beating two Oklahoma girls in 1982. The jury found that there were no mitigating circumstances in the case, and recommended that the judge sentence Nance to death, which he did on March 31, 1994.
In case of a hung jury during the penalty phase of the trial, a life sentence is issued, even if a single juror opposed death (there is no retrial). [6] The Governor of Arkansas has the power of clemency with respect to death sentences. [7] The governor receives for that purpose a non-binding report from the Arkansas Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Charlie Robbins, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Arkansas, said the execution of a search warrant is “an important step in any lengthy, ongoing ...
The Gentry's and Warneke's are still awaiting the retrial for their family as of November 3, 2015. The trial was moved to January 2016, awaiting the appeal verdict of Samuel Conway for the Mary Anderson murder. If he does not win the appeal on the Anderson case he will enter a plea deal with the state on the Gentry/Warneke murders.