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Thirty-year-old Tommy Zeigler was charged for the quadruple murder of his wife, her parents, and another man at his family-owned furniture store. He was tried and convicted on July 2, 1976. Zeigler was sentenced to death on July 16, 1976, for two of the murders, in addition to life imprisonment. [1] [2]
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
Feb 18, 2021 · Since 1973, more than 8,700 people in the U.S. have been sent to death row. At least 182 weren’t guilty—their lives upended by a system that nearly killed them.
- Phillip Morris
- 8 min
“One of my parents’ killers is on death row in Pennsylvania. I cannot imagine what good it would do to kill a person who is incarcerated and away from the public. No one would be made safer.
- Bayan Aleksey
- Quincy Jovan Allen
- Steven Vernon Bixby
- Ricky Lee Blackwell, Sr.
- Marion Bowman, Jr.
- Stephen Cory Bryant
- James N. Bryant, III
- Luzenski Allen Cottrell
- Donnie Council
- William Dickerson
County: Orangeburg Date to South Carolina Department of Corrections: Sept. 1, 1998 Aleksey is accused of shooting and killing Sgt. Franklin Lingard on New Year’s Eve in 1997 after Lingard stopped Aleksey’s Ford Mustang. Aleksey shot Lingard through the driver’s side of the car. There was a woman and two children in the vehicle at the time. The shoo...
County: Richland Date to South Carolina Department of Corrections: March 21, 2005 Allen was convicted of shooting a homeless man multiple times on July 7, 2002. Allen told police that he used the man as a “practice victim” because he didn’t know how to shoot a gun. The man survived. A few days later, Allen met a prostitute, took her to a cul-de-sac...
County: Abbeville Date to South Carolina Department of Corrections: Feb. 21, 2007 The Bixby family started threatening South Carolina Department of Transportation officials in 2003 after the department planned to take advantage of a right of way on the family’s property during the construction of SC-72. The Bixby saidthey would “fight to the death”...
County: Spartanburg Date to South Carolina Department of Corrections: March 17, 2014 Blackwell was convicted of shooting and killing an 8-year-old girl in July 2008, after his wife left him. The girl, Brooke Center, was the daughter of his wife’s new boyfriend. Blackwell flagged his wife down after he went to her parents’ house. She got out of the ...
County: Dorchester Date to South Carolina Department of Corrections: May 23, 2002 Bowman shot and killed Kandee Martin before stuffing her body into the trunk of her car and setting it on fire. Witnesses told authorities that Martin owed Bowman money and had heard him threaten to kill her. Later, he told witnesses that he’d murdered her, stating “I...
County: Sumter Date to South Carolina Department of Corrections: Oct. 31, 2005 Bryant murdered three people during an eight-day crime spree in October 2004. He’d go to isolated, rural homes in the middle of the day claiming that he was looking for someone or was having car trouble. He later returned to a home, cut its phone wires and stole a gun. T...
County: Horry Date to South Carolina Department of Corrections: Oct. 9, 2004 Bryant was stopped by police in Horry County when he wrestled Cpl. Dennis Lyden to the ground, beat him unconscious with the Lyden’s flashlight and then shot the officer in the head with Lyden’s own pistol. He was arrested the next day after a manhunt. Bryant is 41 years o...
County: Marion Date to South Carolina Department of Corrections: April 7, 2005 Myrtle Beach Officer Joe McGarry was getting coffee with another officer in December 2002 when he spotted Cottrell. Cottrell was a suspect in the murder of Rick Hartman, whose body was found a month earlier. McGarry and the officer approached Cottrell outside, and asked ...
County: Aiken Date to South Carolina Department of Corrections: Oct. 23, 1996 Council had hogtied and duct tapped Elizabeth Gatti, a 72-year-old widow, whose body was found underneath a bedspread in her basement. In addition to suffocating her, Council was convicted of sexually assaulting her. A pathologist told a jury at trial that he had also for...
County: Charleston Date to South Carolina Department of Corrections: May 7, 2009 William Dickerson and other men are accused of torturing Gerard Roper for 36 hours in March 2006. Roper, who owed Dickerson money, begged for his life. Dickerson initially shot at Roper, missed and then hit him in the head with his gun and dragged him into a car. Durin...
Aug 16, 2020 · To prompt a deeper understanding of the death-penalty system in the US, photographer Jackie Black recreated the last meals requested by prisoners on death row before they were executed.
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Apr 21, 2021 · Of the 174 death row exonerations, only 28 were proven by DNA evidence; more commonly, jurors were biased, defence lawyers had failed in their job, prosecutors had hidden exculpatory evidence...
