Capital punishment
“Stocking Strangler” Carlton Gary Gets Stay of Execution
59-Year-Old Carlton Gary, who was slated to be executed tonight has received a stay of execution. The Georgia Supreme Court has ordered the Muscogee County Superior Court to have a hearing on Gary’s request for DNA testing. Gary was convicted in 1986 of three slayings out of seven between 1977 and 1978 in the Columbus [...]
Clarence Butterfield Killed His Daughter
Back in September of 2008 55-Year-Old Clarence Eugene Butterfiled was arrested in San Clemente, California on a charge of Obstructing a Police Officer and ended up being shipped out to Nevada to face charges on a criminal warrant taken out for him there on charges of Burglary, Theft and Forgery. Butterfield apparently has a long [...]
Sodium Thiopental. It’s Not Just an Experiment Anymore!
Back in 1991 51-Year-Old Kenneth Biros of Oio met 22-Year-Old Tami Engstrom in a bar near the town of Warren. Offering to give her a ride home he robbed the woman and attempted to rape her. Engstrom didn’t want to cooperate and Biros ended up killing the woman and dismembering her, spreading the body parts [...]
Updated – John Allen Ditullio Gets to Waste Even More Tax Dollars
John Ditullio has been in jail for the last three (almost four now) years on charges of a murder he allegedly comitted in March of 2006. Originally he told the court he was going to defend himself, believing that nobody would fight for his life with the same fervor that he would but in March [...]
Gerald Patrick Lewis is Roasting in Hell
Prison officials in Alabama announced that convicted serial killer Gerald Patrick Lewis has died while on death row awaiting execution according to a press release by the Douglas County DA’s Office. He was convicted in both Georgia and Alabama for killing several women including Peggy Lynn Grimes in Douglas County. There are plenty of links [...]
No Death Penalty for Charles Nettlebeck
According to KIRO in Seattle the Pierce County Prosecutor has announced that due to his history of mental illness they will not seek the death penalty against Charles W. Nettlebeck, the 52-year-old man arrested for the March ax murders of Barbara Joe Nettlebeck and Bretta Joan Hawkins. A March 2010 date has been set for [...]
Bond Denied For Cesar Laurean
I updated the last post about Cesar Laurean, the Marine who murdered Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach and fled to Mexico, last week when I mentioned that he would be back in the U.S. by the end of the week. He was finally extradited after having lost his last attempt to fight against extradition to the [...]
Updated – State to Seek Death Penalty in Casey Anthony Case
I’ve just been informed that the Florida State Attorney’s Office has reversed their earlier decision to not seek the death penalty in the Casey Anthony murder case and WILL be seeking the death penalty against her. I guess they’ve decided that they have enough evidence to not only get her convicted but put her to [...]
Clarence Meyers Wanted Sympathy
At first it seemed like a blameless tragedy. Two young teenage girls perish in a fire and their mother’s boyfriend valiantly tries to get back in to save them. Both girls died from smoke inhalation. A sad story, but once the fire marshal finished his investigation, determining that the only way the fire could have [...]
Harrell Johnson Gets Life in Prison
Harrell Johnson was convicted back at the beginning of October of the heinous crime of murdering Erica Green, otherwise known to the media and law enforcement as ‘Precious Doe’. The prosecution didn’t seek the death penalty for a couple of different reasons, one being that Johnson agreed to withdraw his request to change the venue [...]
