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Mark James Asay was the first person executed by lethal injection using the drug etomidate. Robert Lee Massie was California's longest-serving death row inmate prior to his execution in 2001. Donald Dillbeck was Florida's 100th execution since the reinstatement of the death penalty. Louis Gaskin was executed in Florida in 2023 for a double murder.
Hill was one of two men convicted of the murder of Raymond Fife, but only Hill, who was 18 when the murder happened, was sentenced to death. Hill's accomplice, Timothy Combs, was sentenced to life in prison as he was 17 when the crime occurred and hence ineligible for the death sentence. Combs had since died in prison in 2018.
Young was a convicted bank robber and murderer, [90] who while serving one of a series of prison terms, attempted a 1939 escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary with four other inmates. During the escape attempt two inmates were shot, and one died of his wounds.
In return, inmates would pay $250 to $500 for the papers, Gonzalez and Wheeler said. Tips from within the jail led investigators to identify Lewis and a warrant was issued on Nov. 9.
The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 20 February 2025. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]
Forbes saw a group of people near a van and assumed it was a drug deal. After telling the men to leave, one man, Dan Davis, argued with Forbes. The two got into a fight and Forbes shot Davis three times. Forbes was charged with murder but convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years in prison. He was released in 2000. [163] 5 November 1992
Drug overdoses nearly doubled at a privately run prison where inmates said it was “easy” to get hold of illegal substances, The Independent can reveal.. HMP Forest Bank, a category B jail in ...
In 2021, Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that tablets would “fundamentally change” communication for the state’s more than 100,000 prison ...