TX: Death Row Inmate Escapes
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 5:21 pm
...the needle.
Harris County death row prisoner convicted in saloon robbery found dead in cell
Died of natural causes at age 71.
After spending 14 years in prison for armed robbery and jail breaking he was released. Seven months later in 1983 he killed five people, including his sister, in generally separate incidents, and was convicted and sentenced to death. Through appeal his conviction was overturned, he was retried and sentenced once again to death. After more legal machinations that sentence was set aside and he faced yet another jury, which once again sentenced him to death. He had current appeals pending.
Those who did not escape this year to date:
Anthony Shore raped and killed five (that we know of) mostly teenage girls in separate incidents from 1986 to 1995. He was executed on 1/18/18.
William Rayford murdered his ex-girlfriend in front of her children. This was after serving eight years of a 23 year sentence for murdering his wife. He was executed on 1/30/18.
John Battaglia called his estranged wife so she could hear over the phone as he shot their six and nine year old daughters to death while at least one of the girls begged him not to do it. He was executed on 2/1/18.
The current Death Row information is here: https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/
Harris County death row prisoner convicted in saloon robbery found dead in cell
Died of natural causes at age 71.
After spending 14 years in prison for armed robbery and jail breaking he was released. Seven months later in 1983 he killed five people, including his sister, in generally separate incidents, and was convicted and sentenced to death. Through appeal his conviction was overturned, he was retried and sentenced once again to death. After more legal machinations that sentence was set aside and he faced yet another jury, which once again sentenced him to death. He had current appeals pending.
Those who did not escape this year to date:
Anthony Shore raped and killed five (that we know of) mostly teenage girls in separate incidents from 1986 to 1995. He was executed on 1/18/18.
William Rayford murdered his ex-girlfriend in front of her children. This was after serving eight years of a 23 year sentence for murdering his wife. He was executed on 1/30/18.
John Battaglia called his estranged wife so she could hear over the phone as he shot their six and nine year old daughters to death while at least one of the girls begged him not to do it. He was executed on 2/1/18.
The current Death Row information is here: https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/