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In 1999, Glaser established the Glaser Progress Foundation, "to build a more just, sustainable and humane world." [ 16 ] From 2011 to 2015, foundation assets have shrunk from $9 million to $5.7 million; annual grants have shrunk from $1.5 million to $267,000; overhead and expenses have grown slightly from $455,000 to $525,000. [ 17 ]
Robert Leslie Roberson III (born November 10, 1966) is an American man convicted and on death row for the murder of his two-year-old daughter in 2002. Roberson was accused of shaking his daughter and causing her death, and was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2003.
At a hearing on July 23, Deputy DA Richard Bentley requested the death penalty. Gray pleaded insanity on all counts. After a witness claimed to have seen Gray at Roberts' house the day of her death, on September 9, 1998, Gray changed her plea to guilty of robbing and murdering two women and attempting to murder another. [ 17 ]
Robert Lee Willie (January 2, 1958 – December 28, 1984) was an American serial killer who killed at least three people in Louisiana from the late 1970s to 1980. He was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 18-year-old Faith Hathaway and was executed in 1984.
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.
Most jurisdictions in the United States of America maintain the felony murder rule. [1] In essence, the felony murder rule states that when an offender kills (regardless of intent to kill) in the commission of a dangerous or enumerated crime (called a felony in some jurisdictions), the offender, and also the offender's accomplices or co-conspirators, may be found guilty of murder.
Skinner died at Hospital Galveston in Galveston, Texas, on February 16, 2023. He was 60. His attorneys said he died due to complications following surgery in December 2022 to remove a brain tumor. [6] Linda Carty, convicted of murdering a woman and stealing her four-day-old child. Robert Fratta, convicted for hiring two men to murder his wife ...
Bowers's defense team includes two public defenders plus well-known criminal defense attorney Judy Clarke, a death penalty expert who was appointed by the court as co-counsel for the defendant. [ 9 ] [ 99 ] The defense offered a plea deal in which Bowers would plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life imprisonment without parole ; federal ...