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are there any famous killers who have recieved the death penalty?
please note, i am not looking for controversy. i did not ask if you are for or against it. i just want to know who has recieved this punishment. has jack the ripper or the zodiac killer? please inform me asap, i'm doing it for an essay.
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- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
• Robert Lee Yates, Jr. is currently on Death Row.
• Aileen Wuornos was executed on October 9th, 2002 by lethal injection.
• Faryion Wardrip was sentenced to death in 1999, but in 2010 his sentence was overturned on appeal.
• Henry Louis Wallace is currently on Death Row.
• Chester Dewayne Turner is currently on Death Row.
• Ottis Toole was given two death sentences, the first in April of 1984 and the second in February of 1983, but both sentences were commuted to life in prison.
• William Suff was sentenced to death on October 26th, 1995, and is currently on Death Row.
• Cary A. Stayner was sentenced to death in 2002 and is currently on Death Row.
• Charles Starkweather was executed by electric chair on June 25th, 1959.
• Gerald Stano was executed on March 23rd, 1998 by electric chair.
• Andrew Kokoraleis was executed on March 16th, 1999 by lethal injection.
• Edward Spreitzer was sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted in 2003.
• Timothy Wilson Spencer was executed on April 27th, 1994.
• Anthony Edward Sowell was sentenced to death on August 10th, 2009, and is currently on Death Row.
• Morris Solomon, Jr. was sentenced to death in July of 1992 and is currently on Death Row.
• Daniel Siebert had an execution date of October 25th, 2007, but before he could be executed he died of natural causes.
• Robert Shulman was sentenced to death in 1999 after New York reinstated the death penalty in 1995, but this sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after New York abolished capital punishment and also because it was not instated during the commission of his murders.
• Anthony Allen Shore was sentenced to death and is currently on Death Row.
• Tommy Lynn Sells was sentenced to death and is currently on Death Row.
• Charles Schmid was sentenced to death in 1966, but his sentence was commuted to 50 years in prison when Arizona temporarily abolished the death penalty.
• Michael Bruce Ross was executed by lethal injection on May 13th, 2005.
• Daniel Harold Rolling was executed by lethal injection on October 25th, 2006.
• Dayton Leroy Rogers was sentenced to death and is currently on Death Row.
• John Edward Robinson was given two death sentences in 2003 and is currently on Death Row.
• Harvey Miguel Robinson was sentenced to death, and as of April 2006, his execution had been stayed.
• Gary Leon Ridgway avoided a sentence of death in return for giving information about his crimes.
• Rafael Resendez - Ramirez was executed on June 27th, 2006 by lethal injection.
• Paul Dennis Reid, Jr. received 7 death sentences, the first two on April 20th, 1999, but his execution has been stayed several times since then. He is currently on Death Row.
• Richard Ramirez was sentenced to death on November 7th, 1989. He is currently on Death Row.
• Cleophus Prince, Jr. was sentenced to death in 1993 and is currently on Death Row.
• Christopher Peterson received two death sentences in 1990, but was removed from Death Row in 2004 due to post - conviction relief.
• Steven Brian Pennell was executed in 1992 by lethal injection.
• Louise Peete was executed in a gas chamber on April 11th, 1947.
• Gerald Parker was sentenced to death in 1999 and is currently on Death Row.
• Carl Panzram was sentenced to death in 1929 and was executed on September 5th, 1930 by hanging.
• Gordon Northcott was sentenced to death and executed in 1930.
• Earle Nelson was sentenced to death in 1927 and executed on January 13th, 1928 by hanging.
• David Edwin Mason was sentenced to death and executed in 1993 by gas chamber.
• Rhonda Belle Martin was sentenced to death in 1951 and executed on October 11th, 1957 by electric chair.
• Henry Lee Lucas was sentenced to death, but this was commuted to life in prison in 1976.
• Bobbie Joe Long was given multiple life sentences, but after successful appeals, he is now incarcerated and serving one five - year sentence, four 99 - year sentences, 28 life sentences, and one death sentence. He is currently on Death Row.
• Derrick Todd Lee was sentenced to death on January 16th, 2008 and is currently on Death Row.
• Peter Kuszinowski was sentenced to death on February 24th, 1929 and was executed by electric chair on December 21st, 1929.
• Randy Steven Kraft was sentenced to death on November 29th, 1989, and is currently on Death Row.
• Patrick Kearney plead guilty to murder to avoid the death penalty and was instead given 21 life sentences.
Source(s): • John Joubert was given two death sentences and one life sentence, and was executed by electric chair on July 17th, 1996. • Martha Ann Jonhson was sentenced to death on May 5th, 1990, but this was later commuted to life in prison. • Phillip Carl Jablonski was sentenced to death, but this was upheld in January 2006 on appeal. • Leslie Irvin was given the death sentence, but this was commuted to a life sentence when his original sentence was overturned. • Herman Webster Mudgett was sentenced to death and executed on May 7th, 1986 by hanging. There are a LOT more, as I only got up to the middle of the alphabet, but I'm getting tired, and I'm running out of room, so go to this site and look the rest up yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killer... - ?Lv 45 years ago
Quite a couple of serial killers through the years have both been achieved or taken their possess lives. One of the extra up to date in-jail suicides used to be that of Dr. Harold Shipman, one of the vital prolific serial killers in historical past. Looking plenty like Santa Claus, this British health practitioner made housecalls on his, probably older females, sufferers injected them with a deadly dose of narcotic, after which attempted to cover the proof through backdating this laptop files to mention that they'd a terminal ailment. He additionally satisfied so much, however now not all, households to cremate the stays. One of the final individuals to be guillotined in France used to be an extra serial killing medical professional. A very weird case. None of those have been "mercy killings." They have been all murders.