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Death of Caylee Anthony. Caylee Marie Anthony (August 9, 2005 – June 2008) was an American toddler who lived in Orlando, Florida, with her mother, Casey Marie Anthony (born March 19, 1986), [ 4] and her maternal grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony. On July 15, 2008, Caylee was reported missing in a 9-1-1 call made by Cindy, who said she ...
The Vallow–Daybell doomsday murders are a series of killings—including child murder, filicide and spousal murder —committed by an American couple, Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell, who led a Mormon religious group described by the media as a " doomsday cult ." The case was set in motion when Lori Vallow's daughter, Tylee Ryan (aged 16 ...
Menard Correctional Center. John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois. He became known as the Killer Clown due to his public performances as a clown prior to the discovery of ...
Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) [2] was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between November 1957 and January 1958, when he was nineteen years old. [3]
Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), was a landmark criminal case in which the United States Supreme Court invalidated all then existing legal constructions for the death penalty in the United States. It was a 5–4 decision, with each member of the majority writing a separate opinion. [ 1]: 467–68 Following Furman, in order to reinstate ...
Wesley Warren Jr. shortly after undergoing surgery on his testicles. [ 1 ] Wesley Warren Jr. (June 23, 1963 – March 14, 2014) was an American man who attracted worldwide attention for his problems with scrotal elephantiasis , which caused his scrotum to grow to a weight of 132.5 pounds (60.1 kg) and hang down a little below his knees.
Houston Police officer Karl Siebeneicher describing Henley's actions upon leading police to Corll's boat shed on August 8. Search for victims Henley agreed to accompany police to Corll's boat shed in Southwest Houston, where he claimed the bodies of most of the victims could be found. Inside the boat shed, police found a half-stripped stolen car, a child's bike, a large iron drum, water ...
Capital punishment for juveniles in the United States existed until March 2, 2005, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in Roper v. Simmons. Prior to Roper, there were 71 people on death row in the United States for crimes committed as juveniles. [ 1] The death penalty for juveniles in the United States was first applied in 1642.