Marine sentenced to death for Pendleton murder
Lt Jesse Quintanilla, a Marine, was convicted of premeditated murder for shooting Lt Col Daniel Kidd and wounding Lt Col Thomas Heffner at Camp Pendleton on March 5. The 12 jurors imposed the death sentence and he will appeal at Fort Leavenworth. no Marine has been executed since 1817.
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Jesse Quintanilla
Daniel Kidd
Thomas Heffner
Camp Pendleton
Quintanilla
Kidd
Heffner
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Florida man executed in electric chair for 1982 Panhandle murder
John Mills Jr., 41, was executed in the electric chair in Starke after being condemned for the March 5, 1982, murder of Les Lawhon. Mills and an accomplice abducted Lawhon from his mobile home, drove him to an abandoned airstrip, and fired two shotgun blasts to his face after a staged phone request and robbery.
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Starke
John Mills Jr
Les Lawhon
Florida
Panhandle
Mills
Michael Frederick
Lawhon
Lawdon
Inmate Cleared by DNA Test Walks Free in Ohio
Walter D. Smith, jailed since January 27, 1986, after being convicted of two rapes, was released after DNA tests proved he was not the rapist. He had also faced a 6 to 25 year sentence for armed robbery. Smith planned a lobster dinner and hot bath, and said he felt both sad at leaving the prison community and excited by his freedom. He will live with relatives in Columbus.
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London
Ohio
Walter D. Smith
Smith
Columbus
Carol Canode
Walter Smith
Army mourns racial killings at Fort Bragg service
Army honors Jackie Burden and Michael James at a memorial in Fort Bragg North Carolina. Lt Gen John Keane says extremism vigilance has intensified with tattoo screening and multiple discharges. Two 82nd Airborne soldiers faced murder and conspiracy charges in the Dec 7 1995 deaths and await trial as about 300 attendees witness reflections on racism and unity.
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Keane
Jackie Burden
Michael James
82Nd Airborne Division
Transplant Dilemma Nears Death Row Kidney Donation
In Birmingham, Alabama a last minute stay blocked the execution of David Larry Nelson so he could donate a kidney to his brother Louis Nelson. Vanderbilt doctors faced ethical questions about whether a condemned man should recover enough to be executed and whether the donation was voluntary. Louis Nelson, a 57 year old dialysis patient with diabetes, receives care at the VA Medical Center in Murfreesboro. The Alabama Supreme Court granted a three week delay before the scheduled New Year’s 1977 execution.
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Birmingham
Ala
J. Harold Helderman
Vanderbilt Transplant Center
Nashville
Tenn
Alabama
David Larry Nelson
Nelson
Helderman
Delaware
Vanderbilt
Veterans Hospital
Louis
Alvin C. York’va
Murfreesboro
Louis Nelson
David Nelson
Wilson Thompson
Alabama Supreme Court
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