Gary Whitton was sentenced to die in Florida's electric chair for the October 9, 1990 beating and slaying of a friend to death, James Mauldin (“Jimmy”), a fellow alcoholic, in a fight that left a motel room covered with blood. The men fought for more than 30 minutes at a motel after Jimmy had gone on a drinking binge. Gary delivered massive blowsto Jimmy's head and neck “that would have brought down a drunk elephant”.

A former traveling medical technician who stole drugs and infected more than 40 patients with hepatitis C will remain in prison after a judge called his request for compassionate release "the least meritorious" he'd ever seen. David Kwiatkowski was sentenced in 2013 to 39 years in prison for stealing painkillers and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted with his blood. Despite being fired numerous times over drug allegations, he had worked as a cardiac technologist in ...

The execution of Richard Laird, who was sentenced to death in two different trials for the murder of Pennsylvania artist Anthony Milano, has been put on hold. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed a death warrant calling for Laird to be executed for the murder of Milano in 1987. But Judge Rea B. Boylan granted a stay of execution while Laird's attorneys pursue post-conviction appeals. He gave Laird's lawyers time to file an amended petition, and set a deadline for prosecutors to respon...

A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania trial court has granted the application of the Dauphin County District Attorney’s office to withdraw all charges against Samuel Randolph, IV, completing his exoneration of a double murder that sent him to Pennsylvania’s death row in 2003. On April 6, 2022, two days after the SCOTUS had declined to review the county prosecutors’ appeal of a federal court ruling granting Randolph a new trial, DA Fran Chardo filed a motion to enter an order of nolle prose...

Kevin Wayne Dunlap, b. May 15 1972 (age 51), was sentenced to death March 19, 2010 in Livingston County, KY. On October 15, 2008, Dunlap stabbed and killed a 5 year old boy, and his 14 and 17 year old sisters in their home. He then raped and attempted to murder their mother by stabbing her with a knife. When he thought that the mother was dead, he set fire to the home and left. He was arrested on 10/18/2008. He was convicted of the following crimes: Murder (Capital)-3 cts; Kidnap...

Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello was an associate of the Gambino crime family and had ties to former Gambino boss John Gotti. “Big Tony” was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2001 slaying of a prominent Florida businessman, Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis, during a power struggle over a lucrative fleet of gambling ships. Evidence showed “Gus” Boulis was killed by a mob hit man, and that Moscatiello ordered the slaying. "Now, you know what he means ... we need Gus kille...

Donna McClure was born Peter Kevin Langan in 1958 on Saipan in the South Pacific Islands. She grew up in Vietnam, where her father served in the military and CIA, before moving to the United States when Langan was 6 years old. Donna was convicted by a jury of robbing two banks and of using firearms and a destructive device in committing the robberies. In a separate trial concerning the circumstances of his arrest on unrelated charges, Donna was convicted of assaulting a federal officer and of fu...

Longo was convicted of killing his wife and three children on the Oregon coast. The bodies of the four were recovered from two coastal inlets around Christmas 2001. Longo went on the lam, landing on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list before he was captured in Mexico posing as travel writer Michael Finkel. Sentenced to death 16 April 2003. Commuted by Governor to LWOP in 2022. “I sent them to a better place.”

Stevens was convicted of aggravated murder and numerous sex abuse and rape charges after kidnapping three of his nieces in 1988. One of the children, 5-year-old Nicole Lynae Edwards, was found dead in the attic crawl space in Stevens' house on an Oakville dairy farm. The others were injured but alive. Stevens was sentenced to death a second time after his first sentence was overturned. The second sentence also was overturned. Interesting fact: Prior to strangling his niece, Stevens...

Being younger and stronger, I just pushed him off and shot him right between the eyes. Just because he pissed me off. He was shot like an executioner would have done it. He fell to the ground lifeless and didn’t even wiggle. Wardlow was 18 when he killed 82-year-old Carl Cole in Cason, TX. Wardlow shot Cole during an attempted robbery in which he said he had planned to steal Cole’s truck to leave the rural town and start a new life with his girlfriend.

The body of 8yo Shane (“Shane”) Coffman (d. c. 7 August 1995) was found in an abandoned freezer outside the mobile home of his mother, Bertha Jean (“Berti”) Coffman, and her boyfriend, Donald (“Donny”) L. Gilson (b. November 10, 1960 | age 49 at execution). An autopsy showed two fractures to the boy's skull, a tooth missing from his right jaw, and fractures to his collarbone, shoulder blades, ribs, legs and spine. Berti said she and Donny discussed: “just dumpi...

This is my revenge. I’m gonna kill you, but you’re gonna suffer. This is not going to be easy. In 1990, Terence Valentine (b. 1949), a Costa Rican man living in Texas, was convicted of the gruesome 1988 killing of Ferdinand Porsche and the attempted murder of Valentine’s ex-wife, Libia Romero. Romero, who is also Costa Rican and who was divorced from Valentine at the time, testified in court that her ex-husband broke into the couple’s home in Tampa, Florida, shot Porsche...

Ron told police that 16yo Barbara Bruzda beat him twice at pool on Oct. 23, 1978, after he stopped at Joe's Place on the way home from fixing a furnace. He said he gave the girl and the unidentified man a ride from the bar. A black truck was waiting for them in nearby Clarksburg, Weiss told police. A blow to the head fractured the girl’s skull. Ronny is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Oct. 22, 2023.

Johnesha Monae Perry wanted to send her son to heaven. So she pushed him in a stroller to the 52-foot Hamilton Street Bridge in Allentown, PA. Johnesha kissed her son before pushing him off the bridge. She then jumped but managed to reach shore with a broken arm. The child was pulled out of the water about 700 yards downstream but died six days later. Court documents reveal the young mother had a long history of mental illness. The then 20yo planned to pursue an insanity def...

Willie Seth Crain, a then fifty-two-year-old Hillsborough County fisherman and crabber, was charged with the September 1998 kidnapping and first-degree murder of seven-year-old Amanda Brown. At the time, Amanda was three feet, ten inches tall and weighed approximately forty-five pounds. “Don't worry, you don't have anything to worry about,” and “Just remember, you didn't do anything, you didn't hurt that little girl.” According to the testimony of Miller and Lee, Crain resp...

The Staudte Family Murders case, also known as “The Antifreeze Murders”, was a series of killings and attempted killings within the Staudte family of Springfield, Missouri, during a five-month period in 2012. Family matriarch Diane Staudte and her daughter, Rachel Staudte, committed the crimes together using antifreeze purchased off the internet, with the rationale that antifreeze sold online would not contain the added bittering agent in commercial chemicals making the ethylene glyco...

Michael Brandon Samra was convicted of capital murder and was sentenced to death in 1997 and executed on May 16, 2019 for his role in the killings of Randy Duke, his fiancée, Dedra Hunt, and her two daughters: 6yo Chelisa and 7yo Chelsea. Randy Duke was the father of Michael’s friend and co-defendant, 16yo Mark Duke. Mark Duke planned the murders after he got into a fight and was angry with his father because wouldn't let him use his pickup. His last words were a prayer… ...

Hannah Payne is a woman who was involved in a high-profile murder trial. She was accused of shooting and killing 62-year-old Kenneth Herring during a traffic incident in 2019. Payne allegedly followed Herring, crashed into him, scuffled with him, and then shot him after she witnessed him collide with another vehicle. The incident was captured by a truck driver, Cameron Williams, who described Payne hitting on the window and door of Herring's vehicle. Payne was found guilty on all c...

Jessica and Daniel Groves were convicted of murdering their infant son Dylan Groves, and disposing his body at the bottom of a 30-foot well. His body was wrapped in plastic bags and duct tape, then placed in milk crates secured by chains, padlocks and zip ties. Dylan’s cause of death was determined as “homicidal violence”. The child had suffered multiple bone fractures and broken ribs. Methamphetamine and amphetamine were also found in his system. Jessica Groves was convicted on all...

Upon arriving at the Walmart, Basham approached a blue BMW sedan driven by forty-four year old Alice Donovan. Basham entered the car and forced Donovan to drive to the back of the parking lot, where Fulks waited. There, Fulks entered the driver's side of the car and drove away; at 4:03 p.m., Fulks used Donovan's ATM card to purchase gas from a service station in Shallote, North Carolina. At 4:30 p.m., Donovan called her daughter to say she was shopping and would be home late. Later that day, sev...