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Tyrone Williams Texas Death Row

Tyrone Williams was sentenced to death by the State of Texas for a double murder. According to court documents Tyrone Williams would break into a home where he would stab two women to death. Tyrone Williams would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Tyrone Williams 2022 Information

Name	Williams, Tyrone Jamaal
TDCJ Number	999624
Date of Birth	03/19/1986
Date Received	11/22/2021
Age (when Received)	35
Education Level (Highest Grade Completed)
Date of Offense	06/17/2016
	Age (at the time of Offense)	30
	County	Hunt
	Race	Black
	Gender	Male
	Hair Color	Black
	Height (in Feet and Inches)	6′ 0″
	Weight (in Pounds)	185
	Eye Color	Brown
	Native County	Hays
	Native State	Texas

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A jury has ruled Tyrone Jamaal Williams should be executed for the murders of a Hunt County woman and her mother in 2016.The jury in the 196th District Court deliberated for about four hours before returning with the decision at around 8:30 p.m. Thursday, according to Hunt County District Attorney Noble D. Walker R.“This was an extremely brutal crime that unquestionably warranted the death penalty,” Walker said. “We certainly respect the jury for their very thoughtful deliberation and pray this outcome will bring Vickie and Nicole’s family some peace after having gone through so much since this offense was committed.”Opening arguments and the start of testimony in the trial began Nov. 1.

Williams, 35, of San Marcos, had pleaded not guilty to an indictment with two counts of capital murder in connection with the slayings of Nichole Elizabeth Gonzales, 27, and her mother, Vicki Ann Gonzales, 51 at a residence just outside of Commerce.A 911 call came in at around 1:20 p.m. June 17, 2016 from Vicki Gonzales, who was screaming for help and calling out Williams’ name. The call came from a home in the 7300 block of State Highway 50.The Commerce Police Department was the first agency on the scene and found the women had been slain. Williams’ vehicle was found about three miles away from the home.A search began for Williams with the assistance of the Commerce Police Department, Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice K-9 search team.At approximately 11 p.m. June 17, 2016 the Commerce Police Department received a call of a suspicious person in the 2700 block of State Highway 24/50, at the intersection of Live Oak Street.

When contacted by officers, Williams allegedly gave officers his brother’s name, but Williams’ identification was found in his possession.Williams was taken into custody without incident.Williams worked as a long haul trucker for a Fort Worth company.“First Assistant District Attorney Steven Lilley and Assistant District Attorney Allison Flanagan worked tirelessly over the last several months preparing this case,” Walker said. “They represented the State at an extremely high level during both the guilt/innocence and punishment phase of the trial. Additionally, we are grateful for the work done on this case by the Texas Rangers, Hunt County Sheriff’s Office, and the Commerce Police Department.

The guilty verdict and death sentence were a direct result of their thorough investigation.”Mabel Jean Gonzales of Austin was indicted in June 2017 on one count of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence with the intent to impair. Gonzales pleaded guilty in April 2018 to a lesser charge of attempting to tamper with or fabricating evidence.The attempting to tamper charge carries a maximum punishment upon conviction of from two to 10 years in prison and an optional fine of up to $10,000.In a criminal complaint filed as part of court records, the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office revealed Gonzales was Williams’ girlfriend and alleged that after she visited Williams in the jail, Gonzales drove to a location near the murder scene and removed items from the site.

https://www.heraldbanner.com/news/hunt-county-jury-returns-death-penalty-as-punishment-in-2016-double-murder/article_76bf6974-48e2-11ec-9bad-1f7d374a5e60.html

Richard Andrade Texas Execution

Richard Andrade was executed by the State of Texas for the sexual assault and murder of a woman. According to court documents Richard Andrade would sexually assault and stab to death the victim. Richard Andrade would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Richard Andrade was executed by lethal injection on December 18 1986

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A 25-year-old man whose hand-printed appeal was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court was executed by injection early Thursday for the rape-murder of a woman he stabbed 14 times and left in a pool of blood.

Richard Andrade died at 12:32 a.m. for the 1984 slaying of Cordelia Mae Guevara, said Corrections Department spokesman Charles Brown.

After the needle was inserted into his right arm next to a tattoo of a woman’s head, Andrade turned away from the witnesses and shook his head when asked if he had a final statement.

His attorney, Eric Brown, had said Monday that Andrade had run out of legal avenues. Andrade filed his own requests for stays. He was turned down Tuesday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a federal judge and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and Wednesday by the high court.

Andrade never asked Gov. Mark White for a reprieve. White has refused to grant clemency in previous death penalty cases.

The Supreme Court rejected by a 7-2 vote the request for a stay in which Andrade claimed he had been denied effective legal help and needed more time to appeal his case. Only Justices William J. Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, who oppose capital punishment under all circumstances, voted to spare Andrade’s life.

″Justice is being done,″ said the victim’s sister, Catalina Meza. ″He should go ahead and die. That is what he rightfully deserves. The kind of murder he committed is only done by a person who is very sick.″

Andrade selected a final meal of pizza, pinto beans, Spanish rice and cake. He requested no personal witnesses to his execution.

His mood during the day Wednesday was described by prison officials as calm. He spent the afternoon visiting with four of his brothers.

A fellow death row inmate, Raymond Landry, who has a January execution date, said Andrade said goodbye Wednesday morning while guards were putting shackles on his wrists and ankles for transfer to the deathhouse holding cell.

″The expression on his face – that’s all you needed to know,″ Landry said. ″He had the expression on his face like he had given up hope. His eyes glazed up and he said ‘I’m ready to go, man.’ I don’t think there were any tears but the expression on his face showed they weren’t far behind.″

Andrade refused repeated requests for interviews. But Landry said Andrade had said ″he was afraid of them sticking a needle in his arm.″

Andrade, whose record included burglary, assault, theft and parole violation, would be the 10th Texas inmate to be executed this year and 20th since the state resumed executions in 1982. Both figures are the highest in the nation.

No other inmate had spent less time on death row in Texas before an execution date than Andrade, who was imprisoned 25 months ago for Ms. Guevara’s killing.

Brown, his attorney, said the use of computerized court records and accelerated action by the Texas attorney general’s office led to the relatively quick execution date.

During the punishment phase of his trial, Andrade testified he suffered a blackout as a result of alcohol and heroin intoxication the night Ms. Guevara was attacked.

Ms. Guevara, 28, manager of the Chiquita Fajita Lounge in Corpus Christi, was stabbed at least 14 times with a pocketknife, raped and left on the floor at the club in a pool of blood.

https://apnews.com/article/fb23c45dc6a1ebef711708332910424f

Michael Evans Texas Execution

Michael Evans was executed by the State of Texas for a double murder. According to court documents Michael Evans and Earl Stanley would rob a couple and in the process shoot and kill them. Michael Evans would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Earl Stanley would receive multiple life sentences. Michael Evans would be executed by lethal injection on December 4 1986

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Former mechanic Michael Wayne Evans was executed early today for fatally shooting a church pianist and slashing her face with a carpet knife in a $40 robbery while she prayed, ‘God forgive him.’

Evans, the ninth Texas inmate put to death this year, prayed for his own salvation with the encouragement of a prison chaplain moments before the lethal injection was administered.

‘I just want to say that I’m sorry for what I done, and that I pray that I’m forgiven,’ he said, pausing briefly.

‘I don’t hold nothing against no one at all. Everyone done treated me pretty well. I know this is not easy. I’m sorry.’

Evans then closed his eyes and lay quietly on the gurney. He was pronounced dead by injection at 12:21 a.m.

Evans, 30, lost his final bid for a stay of execution about eight hours earlier when the Supreme Court, on a 5-4 vote, refused to intervene. Earlier Wednesday, a federal judge in Dallas and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans also refused to block the execution.

The condemned man’s attorney had argued that the former mechanic should not be executed because he was insane

Evans spent most of Wednesday sleeping and responded only with ‘OK’ when told courts had denied his requests for a stay.

He spoke by telephone with his mother, his attorney and a friend in the final four hours before his death, but he requested no personal witnesses for his execution. He also refused a last meal.

Evans was condemned for the June 28, 1977, slaying of Elvira Guerrero, 36, a pianist for the Second Mexican Baptist Church in Dallas.

Evans told police in a confession that Guerrero prayed, ‘God help him, God help him, God forgive him,’ while he slashed her face from chin to forehead with a carpet knife after stealing $40 in church collections and shooting her.

He later recanted the confession.

Slain with Guerrero was and her fiance, Mario Garza, 28. The couple were accosted by two men and kidnapped shortly after leaving a Sunday night church service and driven to southern Dallas County where they were shot to death and their throats slashed.

Evans and a companion, Earl Stanley Smith, both were charged with capital murder in the slayings. Smith pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.

A state appeals court overturned Evans’ original capital murder conviction in August 1980 because of improper jury selection. He was convicted a second time on Oct. 8, 1981.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/12/04/Evans-executed-for-murder-of-church-pianist/2147534056400/

John Rook North Carolina Execution

John Rook was executed by the State of North Carolina for the sexual assault and murder of a woman. According to court documents John Rook would kidnap the victim who was later sexually assaulted before being run over by a car. John Rock would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. John Rook would be executed by lethal injection on September 19 1986

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Wearing his favorite cowboy boots and proclaiming ‘Freedom, freedom — at last, man!’ John Rook was executed by injection today for the rape and murder of a 25-year-old nurse.

Rook, 27, lost his bid for a stay on 5-4 Supreme Court vote shortly before midnight EDT and was wheeled into the Central Prison execution chamber about 2 a.m. wearing a Harley-Davidson T-shirt, blue jeans and his Dingo boots.

Freedom, freedom — at last, man! It’s been a good one,’ said Rook, a feisty inmate who stood 5-foot-4 with braided, waist-length blond hair and a beard that hung midway down his chest.

John Rook, whose execution had been postponed five times, received a lethal injection of the muscle relaxant procuronium bromide and was pronounced dead at 2:11 a.m., corrections spokeswoman Renee McCoy said.

‘He seemed to be very peaceful,’ said witness Lisa Shell. ‘He took several deep breaths (and) sighs and then there was a sunken impression on his chest.’

John Rook was convicted of killing Ann Marie Roche, 25, a Raleigh nurse he abducted and raped during a 1980 drinking spree. The woman was beaten with a tire iron, slashed with a knife, run over with a car and left to die in an isolated field, police said. Her body was still warm when found the next day — evidence her death had been long and painful, experts said

John Rook ordered a final meal of 12 hot dogs ‘all the way’ Thursday but only ate three, McCoy said. He made a point of telling officials that he planned to wear his Harley-Davidson T-Shirt and Dingo boots to the execution chamber.

John Rook was the 66th person nationwide and the third in North Carolina to be executed since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976. Velma Barfield, a 54-year-old grandmother put to death in 1984, was the state’s last execution.

Texas leads the nation in the number of post-1976 executions with 18.

John Rook had asked the Supreme Court to grant the stay on grounds the death penalty discriminates against males, poor people and those whose victims are white. Rook and Roche were white.

Rook’s attorneys said in asking Gov. Jim Martin to grant clemency that the state is partly to blame for failing to intervene in Rook’s family situation. Rook’s brother said their father once stripped young Rook naked and beat him with a belt until he bled, and often gave Rook liquor and beer as early as age 4 to watch him get ‘stone drunk.’

Martin’s decision not to grant clemency came about 12 hours before the scheduled execution.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/09/19/Rook-executed-for-killing-nurse/5028527486400/

Chester Wicker Texas Execution

Chester Wicker was executed by the State of Texas for the kidnapping and murder of a college student. According to court documents Chester Wicker would kidnap the 22 year old college student, Suzanne Knuth who he later tried to sexually assault before she was strangled and buried alive. Chester Wicker would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Chester Wicker would be executed by lethal injection on August 26, 1986

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Chester Lee Wicker flew into a rage hours before his execution, then quietly went to his death by injection Tuesday for choking and burying a college student alive on an isolated beach in 1980.

The lethal dose of drugs was administered at 12:10 a.m., and Wicker was pronounced dead 10 minutes later.

His only words while strapped to a gurney for the execution were, ”I love you,” spoken to Judith Lamblion, his only personal witness whom prison officials described as a spiritual adviser.

He was the third person put to death in a week in Texas and the 18th since the state resumed executions in 1982. Texas leads the nation in executions since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on the death penalty in 1976. His was the 65th execution in the nation since capital punishment was resumed.

Wicker, who would have turned 38 Thursday, was convicted of kidnaping and murdering Suzanne C. Knuth, 22, a part-time librarian and student at Lamar University in Beaumont. Wicker choked Knuth and buried her alive April 4, 1980, on an isolated peninsula east of Galveston.

Grains of sand were found in Knuth`s lungs.

Wicker`s quiet demeanor on the gurney contrasted to his behavior Monday afternoon.

Prison officials reported that Wicker flew into a rage in his Death Row cell after spending five hours with his mother, grandfather and Lamblion.

When Wicker was returned to his cell from the visit, he threw his electric fan on the floor and stomped on his bag of belongings. Officials said they were unsure what triggered the outburst.

He then calmed down, and Monday evening said, ”OK, I am ready,” after hearing the Supreme Court had rejected his request for an appeal.

He ate a last meal of lettuce, tomatoes and two cartons of milk.

In their unsuccessful appeal for a Supreme Court stay, Wicker`s lawyers argued the state`s death penalty law should be struck down because people convicted of murdering whites are executed more often than those found guilty of killing blacks. Wicker and Knuth were white.

Wicker was arrested 17 days after the murder and led police to the shallow grave where Knuth was buried.

Before murdering Knuth, Wicker was convicted of rape and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1971, but was paroled after serving less than two years. Eight days after his parole, he was arrested in Galveston and charged with aggravated assault and attempted rape. He was sent back to the state prison in 1973 on a seven-year sentence.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-08-27-8603040053-story.html