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Death row inmates Wilbert Lee Evans and Willie Lloyd Turner had participated in planning meetings for the escape months prior, but they ultimately did not participate; guards later stated that Evans and Turner also prevented the escaping inmates from harming any prison workers, and at least one stated he "[owed] his life" to Evans and Turner. [8]
Martin Edward Gurule (November 7, 1969 – November 27, 1998) was an American prisoner who successfully escaped from death row in Texas in 1998. It was the first successful breakout from Texan death row since Raymond Hamilton was broken out by Bonnie and Clyde on January 16, 1934.
On 22 May 1938, during the Spanish Civil War, around 30 prisoners organised a mutiny for a massive prison break. 792 prisoners fled but only three succeeded in getting to the French border; 585 were arrested, 211 died and 14 of the arrested who were considered the leaders were sentenced to death. Most fugitives were intercepted during the ...
The group had paid a corrections officer to bring them the blades they used in their escape. Ultimately, two guards were fired and another two were demoted following the escape attempt. [8] In January 2002, Martin was overheard talking with another inmate by two death row corrections officers about another escape attempt.
The session drummer was convicted of killing his mother in 1983 and was serving time in prison when he died Jim Gordon death: Drummer for Eric Clapton and Beach Boys dies in prison aged 77 Skip to ...
Troy Leon Gregg (April 29, 1948 – July 29, 1980) was the first condemned individual whose death sentence was upheld by the United States Supreme Court after the Court's decision in Furman v.
A woman from the Philippines who spent almost 15 years on death row in Indonesia and was nearly executed by firing squad is finally home. Mary Jane Veloso was sentenced to death in 2010 after she ...
Ellis Unit, the location of the Texas men's death row at the time of Camacho's incarceration Huntsville Unit, the location of the Texas execution chamber. Genaro Ruiz Camacho Jr. (September 14, 1954 – August 26, 1998), aka Geno Camacho, was a cannabis dealer and organized crime leader in Texas who was linked to four murders and eventually executed by the state of Texas.