My Friends on Death Row

He is a man of flesh and blood. He is also a man who didn't have an easy life. Actually, he didn't have much of a chance right from the beginning. But he always tried. Erick is a man who has done many good things and he also did some very bad things in his life. And about 10 years ago All went terribly wrong.

What actually happened I'll never know for sure. Simply because we weren't there. What I do know for sure is that Erick didn't get a fair trial. What I do know for sure as well is that Erick is not the person he was when he was arrested and sentenced to death 10 years ago. He has grown a lot and I am one of the lucky people who got to know Erick Davila as a person. I got to know the strong, funny and lovely man behind the evil portrait that is pictured and frozen in time on the internet.

It's now a little more then two years ago, since I decided to open my heart and picked up my pencil. I did that with shaky hands. I took the initiative to send a message to Erick. I wrote that reading about him gave me the shivers. Yes, reading about his case gave me the shivers and I told him so. But, reading about the place where he was send to and is 'living' now gave me the shivers as well.

In my opinion the punishment he received Death and the way he is treated on Death Row is very degrading. For me it's best described as torture. In my first letter to Erick I wrote that I would be there for him if he needed someone to talk to. That I would listen to him. He responded a few weeks later and his message was loud and clear.

The only thing he wanted was a people-to-people contact. No more and no less His exacts words were:. I will enjoy writing you, but writing just so you can listen and reply to me I am NOT interested in. I'm interested in learning about Karin and building a friendship with you. Carpenter is suspected in the murders of at least two other women.

Along with accomplice Carol M. Bundy known as the Sunset Strip Killers. Convicted along with her boyfriend James Marlow of the murders of four women from October to November Coffman admits to committing the murders, but insists she suffered from battered-woman syndrome. Cooper was convicted of axing and stabbing Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their daughter Jessica, and their son Joshua's friend Christopher Hughes.

In , Erskine raped and drowned a woman. Four years later, he raped and strangled two young boys. Ford was arrested after he walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff Department in Eureka, California in November with a woman's severed breast in his pocket. Morales' cousin, Richard Ortega, hired him to murder Ortega's lover's girlfriend. She was raped, hammered and stabbed. Parker raped and murdered five women in their homes, as well as killing an unborn child of another woman. Convicted of murdering her fourth husband by antifreeze poisoning.

In jail she attempted to hire a fellow inmate to murder a witness who tried to testify against her. She is also suspected of suffocating her infant daughter with a pacifier. Murdered his wife, two of his three daughters, his mother in-law, the mother-in-law's other two daughters, and his work supervisor. In , Stayner strangled a woman and her daughter's friend from Argentina, and slit the daughter's throat. Five months later, he beheaded another woman.

In December , Waldon shot a woman during a robbery and set her home on fire, killing her daughter inside.

Two weeks later, he shot a man who was working on a car. Wesson's victims were his own children, fathered by incestuous relationships with his daughters and nieces, as well as the children by his wife. Killed two people in an attempt to fund his wedding and honeymoon. A jury deliberated for 1 hour 14 minutes before recommending the death penalty, one of the shortest death penalty deliberations in Orange County history. Murdered 4 people and committed armed robbery at a Chuck E.

Responsible for a shooting at a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant, Dunlap killed four employees and wounded another. His motive was revenge for being fired from the restaurant.

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Sir Mario Owens [32]. Another companion, Bruce Nixon, was sentenced to 45 years after testifying against Cole and leading police to the couple's bodies. Kidnapped, tortured, raped and strangled a year-old man, tied him to a tree, then removed his genitals. Strangled six sex workers including a male crossdresser , then had anal sex with their corpses. Dillbeck was sentenced to life in prison in for shooting a deputy. He escaped from prison in June Commesso was working as an exotic dancer in Florida when she disappeared in Floyd, whose wife worked with Commesso, was a prime suspect in her disappearance.

Floyd's wife, Sharon Marshall aka Suzanne Sevakis , died soon after in a mysterious hit-and-run incident and their son, Michael, was put into foster care. In September , Floyd kidnapped and murdered Michael; his body has never been found and was presumably eaten by wild hogs on Interstate Floyd is also the prime suspect in the death of Sharon. It was discovered that his wife Sharon was raised as his daughter and is herself a kidnap victim of Floyd's.

Floyd was convicted of Commesso's murder after photos of her beaten body were found in Floyd's vehicle. Two of Foster's accomplices were sentenced to life without parole. Another was sentenced to 32 years. Serial killer who murdered 10 women in Tampa, Florida area. Also linked to dozens of rapes in Florida and California that were never prosecuted.

List of death row inmates in the United States

Crime occurred in with McGirth being sentenced to death in He became the youngest person on death row in Florida at the time of his sentence. Zeigler was first sentenced to death in In , Zeigler received the death penalty for a second time in a re-sentencing. Azad Haji Abdullah [35] [37].

Murder by arson of his wife and attempted murder of their four children in Boise on October 5, David Leslie Card [35] [38]. Denied retrial in Thomas Eugene Creech [35] [41]. Previously on Idaho's death row; in the U. Supreme Court overturned Idaho's previous death penalty on his appeal. Timothy Alan Dunlap [35] [42]. Also sentenced by Ohio for murdering his girlfriend.

James Harvey Hairston [35] [44]. Erick Virgil Hall [35] [45]. Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. Jonathan Daniel Renfro [35] [47] [48]. Robin Lee Row [35] [49]. Gibson pleaded guilty in for the sexual assault and bludgeoning death of Christine Whitis, a family friend who had come to his New Albany home to console Gibson after his mother's death. Gibson has pleaded guilty to three murders. After he was arrested for Whitis' murder, police excavated Gibson's yard to recover the body of Stephanie Kirk, a year-old Charlestown woman who disappeared in At sentencing, in response to being sentenced to death, he replied "I deserve what I'm getting.

It ain't no big deal. Convicted of the murder of year-old Cory Clark and her 4-year-old daughter. Baer later admitted that he intended to rape Clark, but decided not to go through with it in fear of disease. He decided to go through with the murders to avoid being identified. As of [update] his sentence has been overturned, citing ineffective legal counsel, in regards to not objecting to unlawful jury instructions to ignore mitigating circumstances. Baer appealed the verdict on the basis that he suffers from multiple serious mental illnesses, cognitive impairments, substance induced psychotic disorder, and schizotypal, paranoid, and borderline personality disorders.

Philip Harvey, a neuropsychologist with a specialty in psychosis, diagnosed Baer with persisting dementia, most likely the result of his substance abuse as well as substance induced psychosis. Baer contends the combination of these illnesses meant he was under an extreme mental or emotional disturbance at the time of the crime which affected his ability to conform his conduct.

George Savarese concluded that Baer could understand his conduct, but had no ability to control his behavior. Along with Alton Coleman , Brown was convicted of several murders as part of a midwestern crime spree. Coleman was executed in Despite being on death row in Indiana, Brown is being held in Ohio on unrelated murder charges. He became enraged when he heard his brother, future brother in law, and two of his brother's friends talking about him.

After putting his 7-year-old niece in an upstairs bedroom to protect her, he loaded his semiautomatic rifle and fatally shot the four men. He then went to a neighbor's house and asked them to call police. Corcoran suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and has had ongoing issues with delusions and auditory hallucination. When asked why he was not pursuing post conviction relief, he stated: I think that I should be executed for what I have done I am guilty of murder.

I should be executed. That is all there is to it. That is what I believe. I believe the death penalty is a just punishment for four counts of murder, and I believe that I should be executed since I am guilty of four counts of murder. Holmes was fired from his job at a restaurant after an argument with co-worker Amy Foshee.

At closing on the day of his firing, Holmes waited in the parking lot with Michael Vance. Holmes and Vance attacked Foshee and 2 managers as they exited the building, stabbing them multiple times, and stealing the bank deposit money. Vance was tried separately and sentenced to years. In response to learning his wife was planning to leave him, Isom shot his wife and his two stepchildren.

He then barricaded himself in the family's apartment and shot at police officers attempting to take him into custody. Isom's defense attorney argued that a death sentence was inappropriate given the emotional state of his client, who suffered an extreme emotional disturbance from losing his job and then being left by his wife. He also pointed out that Isom had a stressful upbringing growing up in the gang-ridden projects in Chicago.

Despite this, Isom had no significant criminal history and lived a productive life. Kelly Eckart, an year-old freshman at Franklin College, was last seen on September 27, after leaving work. The next morning, her car was found abandoned in a rural area, with its lights on and keys in the ignition.

She was found in a ravine in Brown County four days later. She had been shot and strangled. Semen found on the body was matched to Overstreet. Overstreet suffers from schizoaffective disorder and suffered from hallucination as a child including "demons". He was discharged from the marines on the basis of mental illness.

The Indiana Attorney General chose not to appeal the decision. He remains on death row indefinitely. Ritchie was involved in a police chase after he was spotted driving a stolen vehicle. The chase ended when he wrecked the vehicle and proceeded on foot before shooting officer William Toney in the chest. Ritchie suffers from a number of cognitive and emotional disorders.

He has bipolar disorder and a non-specified cognitive disorder. The cause of the physiological defect was not identified, but experts speculated that several past serious head injuries, his mother's heavy use of drugs and alcohol during pregnancy, his own history of drug use, and a history of abuse throughout his childhood were to blame. Ward was convicted of the rape and murder of a year-old girl in her home.

Her year-old sister was sleeping upstairs when she heard the screams of her sister. Police found Ward still in the home when they arrived. Ward's first conviction was overturned in on the basis that pretrial publicity tainted the jury pool. He was again convicted and sentenced to death. Ward has been diagnosed with a number of psychiatric disorders including exhibitionism, antisocial personality disorder, and ADHD.

Weisheit was convicted for setting a fire that killed the two children of his girlfriend. After his arrest, Weisheit admitted stuffing a dish towel in Caleb's mouth and using duct tape to bind his arms behind his back. Two flares were found near the boy's body. Autopsies revealed the children were alive when the fire was set. He told police he did it because Caleb was misbehaving on the night before the fire. Weisheit suffers from bipolar disorder. Capital murder convictions for the deaths of Izabel Lewicka and Suzette Trouten and first degree murder in the case of Lisa Stasi, who disappeared in The Kansas Supreme Court, in its review of his case, found serious errors with the state's death penalty statute and ordered that the penalty phase of his trial be redone.

The sentence was overturned in In , he was sentenced to death again. Sentenced to death for kidnapping, torture, rape and murder of year-old college student Jodi Sanderholm in In October Thurber appealed death sentence with arguments whether he is developmentally disabled. The judge rejected the defense's request for a hearing on whether Thurber is developmentally disabled, ruling that the defense hadn't presented enough evidence to warrant a hearing. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. He sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections on the grounds that execution by lethal injection using the cocktail prescribed by Kentucky law constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

The United States Supreme Court heard the case but rejected his challenge by a vote of 7—2. William Jay Gollehon [67]. Ronald Allen Smith [67]. Only Canadian on death row in the United States [68]. Murdered three people including Brandon Teena , who days prior had reported to police that Lotter and his accomplice Tom Nissen had beat and raped him upon discovering he was transgender. Beat a woman who survived , strangled and drowned her son, and raped and strangled her daughter.

Strangled his cellmate to death in April, Schroeder was already serving a life sentence for murder at the time. This is the first execution scheduled in Nevada since the scheduled execution of Tamir Hamilton in August which was stayed. Assuming Dozier does not reverse his decision to waive his appeals and is executed, his execution will be the first in Nevada since that of Daryl Linnie Mack in April Michael "Stix" Kiser Addison [72]. Robert Ray Fry [73]. He has also three other murder convictions. Henry Louis Wallace [75]. Broom was originally scheduled to be executed on September 15, , but he survived the lethal injection after the executioners failed to find a suitable vein.

Kirkland previously served 16 years for the beating, choking and burning murder of his girlfriend. For the murders, Kirkland was handed two death sentences, plus two sentences of 70 years to life. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence. Scheduled for execution on July 20, Murder of fellow prison inmate, David Polin, while serving a previous life sentence for murder of Mary Archer, his former girlfriend's mother. Confined at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem Former Oregon Governor , John Kitzhaber , placed a moratorium on all executions for the duration of his term as 37th governor, [87] which has upset the victims of Haugen, [88] Gary Haugen himself, [89] as well as Oregonians who voted in favor of Ballot Measures 6 and 7 in the General Elections.

Former attorney who began a racially motivated crime spree on April 28, in Pittsburgh, killing five and paralyzing one. Initially sentenced to death for all three murders.

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The death sentences for the first two murders were later changed to life sentences. He also raped and violently assaulted Ling's daughter, who survived the attack. Charles Russell Rhines [96]. Torture and murder of Chester Allan Poage [97]. Murdered Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer by crushing her skull with asphalt. Pike believed that Slemmer was trying to steal her boyfriend. Two of Pike's accomplices were also sentenced. Tadaryl Shipp was sentenced to life without parole, while Shadolla Peterson was sentenced to probation after testifying against Pike.

In , Pike and another inmate attempted to strangle fellow inmate Patricia Jones with a shoestring; Jones survived. Carty was convicted for the abduction and murder of year-old Joana Rodriguez to steal her newborn son. Prosecutors alleged that Carty orchestrated the crime, which was committed by three masked men who abducted Rodriguez and her son.

Rodriguez was later found dead in the trunk of a car. Her 3-day-old son was rescued from a car parked nearby. The other three men were arrested, but only Carty was prosecuted for capital murder. Carty claims she was framed by drug dealers in response to her work as an informant and has appealed her conviction. Her appeals have been unsuccessful and the appeal procedure has been exhausted.

Barring the granting of clemency, she stands to become the first female British national to be executed since Ruth Ellis in , and the first British black woman executed in more than a century. One of the Texas Seven , convicted in the murder of Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins during a robbery.

Holberg robbed and murdered an year-old white male in his home. The victim was struck with a hammer and stabbed nearly 60 times. The weapons used were a paring knife, a butcher knife, a grapefruit knife, and a fork. A lamp pole had been shoved more than 5 inches down the victim's throat. Murphy was the last member of the Texas Seven to be brought to trial, convicted, and sentenced to death.

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Riles has been on death row longer than anyone in Texas. Because of mental illness, he is considered ineligible to be executed. In , Riles attempted suicide by setting his prison cell on fire. Routier's case has attracted the attention of wrongful conviction advocacy groups in recent years. She is currently in the process of raising funds to test evidence found at the scene for DNA. Rapist and serial killer with 4 known victims.

He removed his right eye on April 1, He removed and consumed his left eye on December 9, Currently residing in a psychiatric unit; no execution date has been set. Murdered his girlfriend Dennise Hayslip and her lover, Darren Cain. Thompson made headlines in by escaping from Harris County Jail in Houston after a parole meeting using a forged ID badge.

He was captured three days later. Thompson alleges that his death penalty conviction is unjust, stating he acted in self-defense as he had been shot by Cain. The killings could be viewed as a crime of passion which would exclude the Capital Murder sentence. Thompson alleges that Dennise Hayslip died a week later due to medical malpractice, not the actual shooting. Sentenced to 35 years in prison in Released on December 11, Sentenced to death on November 9, ; which was overturned in Resentenced to life in prison without parole.

While Wood waited outside, Reneau shot clerk Kris Keeran between the eyes. Wood was not present when Reneau shot Keeran. Reneau was executed on June 13, Jeff Wood's death row conviction has been regarded as controversial, as he did not murder Keeran. Michael Anthony Archuleta []. Torture, rape, and murder of a Cedar City man on November 21, Douglas Stewart Carter []. Murder by stabbing and shooting of an elderly woman during a burglary of her Provo home on February 27, , Assigned Lethal Injection.

Taberone Dave Honie []. Has selected firing squad as his method of execution. Ronald Watson Lafferty []. Murder by stabbing of his sister-in-law and infant niece in American Fork on July 24, Resentenced to Death the same year. Ralph Leroy Menzies []. Kidnapping and murder by strangulation of a female gas station attendant in Kearns on February 23, Von Lester Taylor [].

Murder of a woman and her mother near Beaver Springs, attempted murder by shooting and arson of the young woman's husband, and kidnapping of the two daughters of the man and younger woman on December 22, , chose Lethal Injection as his method of execution. Aggravated kidnapping and murder of a woman in order to prevent her from testifying against him in a rape case. Lovell was originally sentenced to death for this murder in , but on appeal was allowed to withdraw his guilty plea and was granted a new trial. He was again convicted of the murder and sentenced to death in Kidnapped, raped, and murdered an year-old hitchhiker in