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- In May, six death row inmates, including the Briley Brothers, escaped after studying the behavior of guards, overpowering them, stealing their uniforms and feigning a bomb threat in order to get out of the unit. All were recaptured and later executed.
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In 1984, the two elder brothers escaped death row with four other inmates but were recaptured within three weeks. Linwood and J. B. were executed by electric chair in 1984 and 1985, respectively. Anthony Briley and Duncan Meekins are both still incarcerated.
May 14, 2019 · The Brileys, along with fellow inmates Lem Tuggle, Earl Clanton, Derick Peterson and Willie Jones, broke out of Mecklenburg Correctional Center — a facility that was supposed to be escape-proof.
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Jun 1, 1984 · RICHMOND, Va. -- Linwood and James Briley, a pair of brothers believed the leaders of six inmates who fled a death row cellblock, led a gang that terrorized Richmond with a series of...
Aug 31, 2023 · The Briley brothers were sent to death row after a seven-month killing spree. Several years later, they escaped death row with four other inmates
They were the ringleaders in the six inmate escape from death row on May 31, 1984. During the early moments of the escape, in which a coordinated effort resulted in inmates taking over the death row unit, both Brileys expressed strong interest in killing the officers that they had taken hostage.
Jul 26, 2021 · The Briley brothers got off at Philadelphia where their uncle got them a job in a garage. Lem and Willie decided to go to Canada since they believed that death row inmates were not extradited...
May 31, 2019 · In 2009, on the 25th anniversary of their escape from Virginia Death Row, then CBS 6 reporter Mark Holmberg took a closer look at the crimes, the escape, and Briley brothers’ manhunt.
