Serial killer with at least 7 victims complains he doesn’t get jelly donut with last meal
Murder
The death row inmate’s attorneys had unsuccessfully argued that he was intellectually disabled
Court
November 19, 2020
Judge blocks federal execution of inmate convicted of raping, burying 16-year-old girl alive
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the execution of a Texas man after an appeals court ruled earlier this week that the Justice Department’s protocols for execution violate federal law. Orlando Hall, 49, would have been the eighth person executed by the federal government this year after a 17-year hiatus, Reuters reported. Hall, an African-American …
Prison
December 9, 2019
Blind killer on death row dies by electric chair decades after burning ex-girlfriend alive
Reporters claimed they spotted ‘steam or smoke’ coming off the side of Lee Hall’s head during his execution
Serial Killers
May 20, 2019
Bobby Joe Long: Execution looms for serial killer behind at least 9 slayings as court rejects last-ditch appeal
Bobby Joe Long, who was convicted of murdering at least nine women and in the 1980s, is scheduled to be executed on Thursday after the Florida Supreme Court declined his third appeal. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the panel unanimously dismissed all seven claims Long, 65, brought forth, including a challenge to the state’s …
Unsolved
January 15, 2018
Affluent couple ambushed, shot execution-style in shocking gated-community double slaying: Police
Police are investigating a double slaying after finding a Texas couple bound and shot execution-style inside their home in a gated community. The Houston Chronicle reported that Bao and Jenny Lam, both 61, were both found shot to death late Sunday inside their ransacked Spring home. “Everything was disturbed. Furniture was overturned, drawers were opened. It …
Violent Crime
January 26, 2017
UPDATE: Texas death row inmate executed for Subway robbery-murder
Terry Edwards was executed by lethal injection
