Clinton Ray Rose North Carolina Death Row

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Clinton Ray Rose was convicted of two murders and sentenced to death by the State of North Carolina. According to court documents Clinton Ray Rose would shoot and kill two half brothers, Larry and Richard Connor. At the tine of the murders Clinton Ray Rose was an escaped prisoner who had been serving a life sentence for another murder. Clinton Ray Rose would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Offender Number:0351933                                          
Inmate Status:ACTIVE
Gender:MALE
Race:WHITE
Ethnic Group:EUROPEAN/N.AM./AUSTR
Birth Date:06/30/1951
Age:70
Current Location:CENTRAL PRISON

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linton Ray Rose tightly gripped the arms of his chair Thursday as he listened to a Rockingham County jury sentence him to death for the murders of two half-brothers shot in 1990 as they camped by the Mayo River.

Wearing a navy blazer and gray pants, his brown hair in a small ponytail, Rose sat quietly as the jury forewoman announced the sentence for the murders of Larry Dale Connor and Richard Dean Connor.Several of the half-dozen family members and friends of the Connors, who’ve sat through most of the two-week trial, began quietly crying.

Superior Court Judge William Z. Wood Jr. twice told Rose “May God have mercy on your soul,’ and Rose was led away. Family and friends stood and hugged one another. They hugged District Attorney Thurman Hampton and several sheriff’s deputies.

“He got exactly what he deserves,’ said Tammy Kellet, Larry Connor’s sister. “I feel a lot better.’

“This is a happy day,’ said Scott Connor, Richard Connor’s son. “All the days before this were sad until today.’

Defense attorney Philip Berger said: “The jury has spoken. What else can I say? It’s tough.’

The nine-man, three-woman jury deliberated for just over two hours before returning its deci-“If you didn’t, he’d be out pretty quick … you know the way the laws are today,’ Odell said. Some jurors declined to comment, while efforts to reach others were unsuccessful.

Rose, 39, is an escapee from an Alabama prison, where he was serving a life sentence for the 1973 murder of a Tennessee man.

He was convicted Tuesday in Rockingham Superior Court on two counts each of murder and robbery in the June 1990 deaths of Larry Connor, 31, of Reidsville, and Richard Connor, 39, of Stoneville.

The Connors had been camping along the Mayo River in northwestern Rockingham County near the Virginia state line when they were killed by a close-range shotgun blast. Their bodies were found several days after they were killed, zipped inside their tent.

https://greensboro.com/man-gets-death-for-murders-rockingham-campers-were-shot-in-1990/article_8f6e4135-9561-5dfd-8a3c-bd40fdb62fb7.html

Jerry Conner North Carolina Death Row

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Jerry Conner was sentenced to death by the State of North Carolina for a double murder. According to court documents Jerry Conner would rob a store where he murdered a woman and her sixteen year old daughter. The women were also sexually assaulted. Jerry Conner would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Offender Number:0085045                                          
Inmate Status:ACTIVE
Probation/Parole/Post Release Status:INACTIVE
Gender:MALE
Race:WHITE
Ethnic Group:EUROPEAN/N.AM./AUSTR
Birth Date:03/03/1966
Age:55
Current Location:CENTRAL PRISON

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A judge ruled Monday that results of a DNA test for death row inmate Jerry Wayne Conner won’t help him stay out of the death chamber. Gates County Superior Court Judge Richard Parker ruled that results of the new test were unfavorable to Conner. The decision came after an hour-long hearing. An execution date has not been set. Conner was sentenced to death for the 1990 shotgun slayings of Gates County store clerk Minh Rogers and her 16-year-old daughter, Linda, who was raped. The state Supreme Court halted the execution scheduled for May 12 so a DNA test requested by the defense could be performed. If the judge had ruled the results were favorable to Conner, state law would have allowed his lawyers to ask the judge to throw out the conviction, release Conner or order a new trial or sentencing. An August 14 report from the testing company, LabCorp, said one sample from the rape victim had a similar genetic marker as Conner.

“Jerry Conner and his relatives cannot be excluded as the source of the male DNA in this sample,” the report said. Defense lawyers said the report showed there was doubt that Conner committed the crime. District Attorney Frank Parrish said there was enough evidence without DNA, including a confession, to convict and execute Conner.

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/dna-wont-help-nc-death-row-defendant/83-403231278

Wayne Laws North Carolina Death Row

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Wayne Laws was sentenced to death by the State of North Carolina for a double murder in 1985. According to court documents Wayne Laws would beat to death the two victims Ronnie Waddell, 35, and James Kepley, 57. Both of the victims had been brutally beaten with a hammer. Wayne Laws would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Wayne Laws is the inmate who has spent the longest time on North Carolina death row

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Offender Number:0234897                                          
Inmate Status:ACTIVE
Gender:MALE
Race:WHITE
Ethnic Group:EUROPEAN/N.AM./AUSTR
Birth Date:06/12/1960
Age:61
Current Location:CENTRAL PRISON

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Wayne Laws was tried on proper indictments at the 12 August 1985 Special Criminal Session of Superior Court, Davidson County, and was convicted of two counts of murder in the first degree. The jury recommended and the trial court entered a sentence of death for each murder. On appeal the defendant brings forward numerous assignments of error which we address seriatim. We conclude that the defendant’s trial and sentencing were free of prejudicial error.

The State’s evidence tended to show that the bodies of Ronnie Waddell, 35, and James Kepley, 57, were found on a rural dirt road in Davidson County on the morning of 19 March 1984. Each had been bludgeoned to death with a hammer which had left telltale wounds about the head and torso. Each had suffered severe lacerations about the head and multiple skull fractures, including large shattered areas of the skull and round “punched out” holes in the skull about an inch in diameter. Pools of blood and pieces of flesh, hair, skull and brain matter were scattered about the bodies. One of the victims had six broken ribs. Autopsies revealed that both victims had died of extensive brain injuries inflicted with a blunt instrument and that both had been heavily intoxicated at the time.

The day after the discovery of the bodies, authorities took Texford Watts into custody and seized a Ford Mustang belonging to Watts and his sister. The defendant Wayne Laws also was taken into custody at about that time. Tire tracks found on the dirt road at the scene of the murders appeared to have been made by tires similar to those on the Mustang. Blood and hair were collected from several areas of the interior and exterior of the vehicle. After taking Watts into custody, authorities also removed several pieces of clothing from a dumpster at the apartment complex where Watts and the defendant lived. Bloodstains, hair, flesh and brain matter were found on the clothing, which included jeans and a shirt belonging to Watts and jeans, a t-shirt, shoes and socks belonging to the defendant Laws.

The victims had relatively rare blood types. Watts’ shirt was found to be stained with blood of types consistent with those of both victims. The jeans apparently belonging to Watts were stained with blood consistent with victim Waddell’s blood type. The jeans apparently worn by the defendant were stained with blood of types consistent with those of both victims. The t-shirt, shoes and socks identified as the defendant’s were stained with blood consistent with the victim Kepley’s blood type. Blood found on the Mustang also was consistent with Kepley’s blood type.

Hair consistent with that of Waddell was found on Watts’ clothing. Hair consistent with that of Kepley was found on the defendant’s clothing. Microscopic examination revealed that many of these hairs had been struck repeatedly with a blunt instrument and had been forced from the scalp by blows with a blunt instrument. Fibers collected from the Mustang were consistent with those found on the clothing of the two victims, the defendant and Watts.

At trial, Watts was a witness for the State. Watts testified that he and Wayne Laws lived in the same apartment complex but were not very close friends. They had known each other only a few weeks prior to the murders. Watts testified that on the afternoon of 18 March 1984, he and the defendant drove to Lexington in the Mustang, purchased beer and rode up and down Main Street. After eating dinner in a Lexington restaurant, they headed back to Main Street and were stopped by a police *617 officer who inquired if Watts, who was driving, was drinking. The officer let them go and they went to South Main Street and stopped at a convenience store.

Across the street from the convenience store, the two victims, Waddell and Kepley, were sitting on the curb in front of a restaurant. Watts knew Waddell and recognized Kepley. Watts and Wayne Laws briefly talked with Waddell and Kepley. Waddell tried to sell Watts a tire he had with him and asked Watts for a beer. Watts and the defendant drove away but later saw the victims a little closer to town, still with the tire. Watts and the defendant stopped to talk with the victims, and Waddell asked them to take him somewhere he could get rid of the tire. Waddell and Kepley sat in the back seat of the Mustang, and Waddell began giving Watts directions. It was then dark.

After awhile, they came to a dirt road where there were no houses. Watts stopped the car on the dirt road to get out and relieve himself. Watts testified that after he returned to the car, the defendant Laws got out and asked one of the victims if he also needed to relieve himself. The defendant and both victims left the car, and Watts then heard a noise behind the car which sounded like “licks being passed.” When he got out to investigate, Watts saw Kepley lying at the rear of the car, apparently unconscious, and the defendant beating Waddell with his fists a few feet away.

Watts testified that he told Wayne Laws to leave Waddell alone, but the defendant pushed Watts out of the way, got the car keys from the ignition switch, took a claw hammer out of the trunk and began beating Waddell with the hammer. Watts testified that after Waddell fell to the ground, the defendant continued beating him on the head with the hammer. When Watts tried to stop him, the defendant threatened to kill Watts and struck him on the hand with the hammer. After beating Waddell, the defendant started beating Kepley, who was still motionless on the ground, with the hammer. Watts testified that he ran up the road and hid until he heard no more noises. He said he then returned to the Mustang and drove home.

Conflicting statements which Watts had made to police were introduced at trial. He first told police that, after the attack on the victims, he did not see the defendant again until the next day. He later said that while driving home, he saw the defendant on the side of the road and gave him a ride home.

Watts testified at trial that he had given his bloody clothes, later found in the dumpster, to the defendant at the defendant’s request. He said that he had started to telephone police about the killings on the night they occurred but had hung up the telephone before the operator connected him with police. He also testified that when he saw the defendant the next day, the defendant threatened to kill him if he told anyone about the killings.

A statement which the Wayne Laws had given to police after his arrest was introduced at trial. He more or less confirmed the events described by Watts, up to the time at which they had stopped to talk to Waddell and Kepley in Lexington. The defendant said he remembered stopping and talking with two people whom he did not know, but he could not remember anything after that because he had been drinking.

During the separate sentencing proceeding required by N.C.G.S. § 15A-2000, the trial court submitted and the jury found two aggravating circumstances as to each murder: that the murder was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel, and that the murder was part of a course of conduct which included commission of other crimes of violence against other persons. Five mitigating circumstances were submitted to the jury: that the defendant had not been convicted previously of a felony involving violence to persons, that the defendant had been a good and responsible employee, that the defendant’s capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the law was impaired, that the defendant helped to support his family, and any other mitigating circumstances which the jury might find from the evidence. The jury found the *618 four specific circumstances submitted but not “any other” circumstances.

https://law.justia.com/cases/north-carolina/supreme-court/1989/653a85-0-0.html

Christopher Henderson Alabama Death Row

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Christopher Henderson was sentenced to death in Alabama after being convicted of the murders of five people. According to court documents Christopher Henderson would murder  Kristen Smallwood Henderson, her unborn child, her mother and two children on Aug. 4, 2015. Christopher Henderson who had multiple wives would be convicted of the murders back in July 2021 and sentenced to death in October 2021

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Inmate: HENDERSON, CHRISTOPHER MATTHE
AIS: 0000Z816
  
Institution: HOLMAN PRISON

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 Madison County judge sentenced a bigamist found guilty in July on 15 capital murder charges to death this morning.

WHNT is reporting Madison County Circuit Court Judge Chris Comer sentenced Christopher Henderson, 46, Thursday morning.

According to WAFF, Henderson addressed the court before the sentence was read. “First of all, I’d like to give my deepest apologies,” Henderson said. “This is an event that should have never happened.” He went on to apologize to his mother and daughter, said he had been sick for a month with COVID-19, and called the death penalty unconstitutional.

A jury in July voted 11-1 in favor of recommending the death penalty on all charges for Henderson.

Henderson was accused of killing Kristen Smallwood Henderson, her unborn child, her mother and two children on Aug. 4, 2015

Kristin Smallwood Henderson, 35, was nine months pregnant with Henderson’s child at the time of the killings. Her 8-year-old son, Clayton Daniel Chambers, her mother, Jean Smallwood, 67, and her 1-year-old nephew, Eli Sokolowski, were also killed. The bodies were inside a New Market house engulfed in flames when authorities arrived.

Christopher Henderson’s first wife, Rhonda Carlson, testified that he planned and carried out the killings.

She said when she brought a gas can to the home, she saw two of the victims and didn’t think anyone was alive in the home. Christopher Henderson then poured the gasoline and lit a fire, she testified. Carlson took a plea deal to avoid a possible death sentence. Her hearing is set for October 27

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Over the summer, Henderson was convicted on more than a dozen capital murder charges for killing his pregnant wife, her mother and two children. On July 6, the same jury recommended the death penalty to the court.

Henderson has been held without bond until today’s hearing where the judge had the opportunity to break from the jury’s recommendation and decide to sentence Henderson to life in prison.

Christopher Henderson’s accomplice, Rhonda Carlson, accepted a plea deal in the case on July 15.

“It’s unspeakable what he did in this case, and he absolutely deserves what’s coming,” says Tim Gann with the Madison County District Attorney’s Office.

Gann says this is the third death penalty handed down in Madison County in the last 11 years. He says the crime was so heinous it will stay with the community forever.

“There’s no way this family is ever going to be made right. This is all we can do on earth to get earthly justice is this penalty. That’s it,” Gann said.

Henderson didn’t act alone, his other wife Rhonda Carlson took a plea deal for her role in the crime.

“Rhonda was very much a part of this from start to finish. She was a part of the planning. She was a part of the operation. But there is no blood on Rhonda’s hands. She did not take a knife and cut a baby out of the womb. That’s not who she is. She’s going to do life without. It’s death by prison for her,” Gann said.

But Defense Attorney Bruce Gardner says Carlson is just as guilty. Gardner asked the judge to also give Henderson life without parole, because the jury was not unanimous.

“Alabama is unique in allowing a vote of 10-2 to take somebody’s life. I personally disdain the death penalty. It’s just a barbaric institution in my view,” Gardner said.

We learned Thursday that Henderson almost lost his life- through COVID-19.

He was in the jail sick for 24 days before he was admitted and finally taking to the hospital. He almost died. And was in ICU for almost two days. One of his cellmates in fact died,” Gardner said.

At 8:40 a.m. on Thursday, the defense filed a motion to prohibit the death penalty since the July recommendation was not anonymous. During the 9 a.m. hearing, the only state witness to address the court was Kelly Smallwood. Smallwood’s son Eli was one of the five victims in 2015. Kelly’s sister was Henderson’s then nine-month pregnant wife Kristen.

“This has affected me in many ways,” said Kelly. “I lost my mother and my best friend. She was the one I could talk to about anything. I lost my sister Kristen. She loved especially when it came to her son and her unborn daughter Lauren.”

Kelly said if Kristen loved you, “you were loved fiercely.”

“Eli was my whole heart. I had to find a new way to get through each day without him. I never got to hear him say mommy or have his first day of school – graduate, get married, or take care of me when I get old.”

Kelly ended her address by saying she has lost the fear of death.

“I know where my family is…I know I will be reunited with my family and what a glorious day that will be.”

https://www.wbrc.com/2021/10/14/man-convicted-killing-5-new-market-receives-death-penalty/

William Davis Texas Death Row

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William Davis was a nurse who was just convicted of four murders and sentenced to death in Texas. According to court documents William Davis would inject air into the arteries of heart patients causing the deaths of four people and injuring at least eleven more. William Davis would be convicted of four counts of murder and would be sentenced to death

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A former Texas nurse was sentenced to death this week for injecting air into the arteries of four patients recovering from heart surgery, causing fatal brain damage, a court official said.

A jury in Tyler, Texas, handed up the sentence on Wednesday in the capital murder case of the former nurse, William Davis, eight days after convicting him.

Prosecutors said during the trial’s sentencing phase that Mr. Davis, 37, had harmed at least 11 patients altogether by injecting air into their arterial lines or venous systems.

Two of those other patients later died, according to prosecutors, but charges were not brought because the cases would have been harder to prove.

In making their case for the death penalty, prosecutors had played a recording of a jailhouse phone conversation in which Mr. Davis told his ex-wife that he wanted to prolong the I.C.U. stays of the patients so that he could accrue overtime. Their deaths, Mr. Davis said on the call, were accidental.

Jacob Putman, the district attorney for Smith County, rejected that explanation during a news conference on Wednesday.

“Even if that were true and that he somehow was trying to prolong their illness, for someone to do that — kill their patient and then try again,” he said, “you have to be the kind of person who has no empathy, who does not care for another person, who is unconcerned with their well being, who feels no guilt.”

William Davis was working for Christus Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler at the time that the four patients named in the case experienced complications after heart surgery in 2017 and 2018. He was fired about a month before his arrest in April 2018. Tyler is about 100 miles east of Dallas.

A lawyer for Mr. Davis, who lives in Hallsville, Texas, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/us/texas-nurse-death-penalty.html

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