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Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia. 10 years, 126 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois. Robert Gregory Bowers.
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death.The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.
Opened in 1969, [ 3 ]Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison (GDCP) is a Georgia Department of Corrections prison for men in unincorporated Butts County, Georgia, [ 4 ] near Jackson. [ 5 ] The prison holds the state execution chamber. The execution equipment was moved to the prison in June 1980, with the first execution in the facility ...
Longest serving death row inmate in Georgia. [231] Sentenced to death for kidnapping, raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl. [232] [233] Richard Gerald Jordan: March 2, 1977 ongoing 47 years, 213 days United States: Sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of a woman in Mississippi. Jordan is Mississippi's longest serving death row ...
Rosie Alfaro. On June 15, 1990, 9-year-old Autumn Wallace was stabbed to death. Prosecutors say 18-year-old Alfaro, an acquaintance of the family, robbed the house for drug money, and killed Wallace so she would not be identified. 32 years, 2 months and 17 days.
Steven Truscott was convicted of a schoolmate's murder in 1959 and sentenced at age 14 to death by hanging. His sentence was commuted to life in prison four months later, and he was paroled in 1969. His conviction was overturned in 2007 for "miscarriage of justice."
The seven inmates involved in the escape. Top row, left to right, Joseph Garcia, Randy Halprin, Larry James Harper, and Patrick Murphy Jr. Bottom row, left to right, Donald Newbury, George Rivas, and Michael Anthony Rodriguez. The Texas 7 were a group of prisoners who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, on December 13, 2000.
1930 – 10 executions # Executed person Race Age Sex Date of execution Crime(s) Governor 57: Bishop Adams: Black: 41: M: 13-Mar-1930: Robbery and Murder