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According to some reports, Simon had a reputation for taunting fellow inmates at New Jersey State Prison, and apparently selected a convict named Ambrose Harris – who had been on death row for kidnapping and killing 22-year-old artist Kristin Huggins in 1992. Harris and Simon had been assigned to side-by-side cells in the facility's capital ...
On September 7, 1999, Simon was stomped to death by fellow death row inmate Ambrose Harris. [7] Harris had been sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1992 murder of Kristin Huggins, a 22-year-old art student who was visiting from Philadelphia. Harris was brought to trial for Simon's death, but his defense was able to convince the jury that the ...
At the time of Gonzalez's murder Simon was barely three months out of jail and on parole after a 1981 conviction for killing a woman in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. In 1999, Simon was stomped to death by Ambrose Harris, another death-row inmate, in New Jersey's Trenton State Prison. Harris argued self-defense, and was acquitted. [13] [14]
The cause of Harris' death was determined on Feb. 27, and a death certificate was released to the Worcester city clerk’s office on March 5, according to Elaine Driscoll, a spokesperson for the ...
Harris’ father, Mark Harris, once told NBC4 that she “was a caring, loving daughter, sister, granddaughter, aunt and friend.” “Sarah was the shining star to all of our lives,” he said.
The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center: Texas, 591. Oklahoma, 126. Virginia, 113. Florida, 106.
The Supreme Court of the United States reimposed Harris' death sentence in Pulley v. Harris (1984), reversing the Ninth Circuit by a vote of 7–2. [13] In 1990, federal appeals court judge John T. Noonan Jr. issued a stay of execution, as Harris argued that childhood brain damage interfered with his judgment during his crimes. [14] Harris was ...
This was the last execution in New York prior to the death penalty being declared unconstitutional in New York. As a result of several United States Supreme Court decisions, capital punishment was suspended in the United States from 1972 through 1976.