Anthony Juniper was sentenced to death by the State of Virginia for a quadruple murder. According to court documents Anthony Juniper was upset that his girlfriend broke up with him so he proceeded to murder her, Keshia Stephens; her brother Rueben Harrison III; and two of her daughters, Nykia Stephens, 4; and Shearyia Stephens, 2. Anthony Juniper would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
an. 16, 2004 was a nightmare in broad daylight at a Kingston Avenue apartment, prosecutor Karen Burrell told jurors Wednesday.
Inside, four people lay dead – Keshia Stephens, 27; her brother, Ruben Harrison III, 19; and her daughters, Nykia, 4, and Shearyia, 2.
They had been executed, Burrell said, by Anthony Bernard Juniper.
Juniper, 33, could face the death penalty if convicted of capital murder. He has pleaded not guilty.
During her opening statement, Burrell said Juniper and Stephens had had a stormy relationship for about a year.
“He was jealous, controlling, he constantly accused Keshia of cheating on him,” Burrell said.
In January they were no longer together, Burrell said, and Stephens had moved into the apartment with four of her six children. She sent the two older girls to school with a friend that morning, hugging them before sending them down the stairs.
“That was the last touch they ever felt from their mother,” Burrell said.
Juniper got a ride to the apartment to collect some of his belongings, Burrell said. He found Stephens at home with Nykia and Shearyia, who were naked because they were about to get in the bath. Nykia had written on her little sister with a marker. Harrison slept on the couch.
Juniper and Stephens began to argue, Burrell said. Juniper refused to leave with the woman who had driven him to the apartment. As the woman left, she heard gunshots.
Later that afternoon, police responding to a call of a burglary in progress found the door broken in and the television blaring. Inside, officers found the bodies of Stephens, her daughters and Harrison in a bedroom. The children lay on top of the adults.
Stephens had been shot three times and stabbed with such force that a knife blade sank nearly 5 inches into her stomach. Harrison had been shot three times from behind.
“Nykia, 4, had her brains blown out,” Burrell said. “Shearyia was shot four times. One was a shot to the head.”
Juniper left behind evidence including a fingerprint on a knife blade found next to Stephens’ body, DNA on a knife handle found in the same place and DNA on a cigarette butt found on the broken pieces of the door, Burrell said.
One of Juniper’s attorneys, B. Thomas Reed, said Juniper had been to Stephens’ house many times and could have left a fingerprint or DNA behind on another visit.
Juniper loved Stephens’ children, Reed said. He cooked and cleaned for them, bought them toys and registered the older girls for school using his mother’s address.
“The evidence will prove Anthony Juniper is the last person you would expect to harm these children,” Reed said.
Lawyers began calling witnesses Wednesday, including the police officers who found the bodies and the paramedic who pronounced them dead.
Virginia Death Row for men is located at the Sussex Virginia State Prison. Virginia is in the process of getting rid of Capital Punishment in the State. Currently there are two men on death row and they have both been there for over a decade. However Virginia has conducted the second most executions in the United States since 1977 the first of course is Texas
Virginia would stop capital punishment in 2021. The two on death row were resentenced to multiple life sentences
Thomas Hager was sentenced to death by the Federal Government for a murder that was committed twelve years before. According to court documents Thomas Hager was upset that a woman learned where he lived and he was worried she would tell others so he decided to kill her. Thomas Hager would go to the woman’s apartment in Virginia where she was bound up and placed in a bath tub where she was fatally stabbed. The crime went unsolved for over a decade. Thomas Hager was eventually convicted and sentenced to death. As of 2021 he mains on Federal Death Row
The government adduced evidence of the following facts during the first phase of the trial: In November 1993, Hager was engaged in the sale and distribution of crack cocaine at Nelson Place, in the Southeast area of Washington, D.C. In October 1993, he shot and wounded Christopher Fletcher and Ric Pearson, two members of a drug gang from Ely Place, over a dispute about one of his guns. Ely Place is a few blocks from Nelson Place. After the shooting, Hager went into hiding, living with his then-girlfriend, Shenita King, in her apartment in Maryland.
After the shooting, sometime in mid-November, White stopped by King’s apartment. King did not allow White into the apartment, however, and did not tell her that Hager was there. Even so, Hager was very upset because no one was to know where he lived. White had previously dated and had a child with Williams Seals, a member of the Ely Place drug gang. Because Hager feared that White would tell others of his whereabouts, he decided that he would kill her.
On November 29, 1993, Hager, King, Arlington Johnson, and Lonnie Barnett went to White’s Alexandria, Virginia, apartment. When they arrived that evening, King knocked on White’s patio door. White, who was feeding her thirteen-month-old baby daughter Alexis, invited them in.
Shortly after they arrived, White showed King and Hager Alexis’s room. She then took a brief telephone call. Shortly after the call, Hager turned up the volume on the television, pulled out a gun, and hit White’s face with enough force to break her jaw and knock out a tooth. He and Barnett then took White, crying and bleeding, down the hallway to her bedroom. Hager told Johnson to run some water in bathtub. All the while, King stayed in the living room with Alexis. Throughout the ordeal, Hager repeatedly asked White whether she told her baby’s father, Seals, where Hager lived. White insisted that she had not.
Hager sat White on the bed and instructed Barnett to find something with which to gag her. After he gagged her, he and Barnett walked her to the bathroom. Hager told her to get in the bathtub and then grabbed some hot curlers, plugged them in, and threw them into the water, attempting unsuccessfully to electrocute White. Next, he told Johnson and Barnett to go to the kitchen and retrieve some knives with which to stab White. They followed his instructions. All told, the three stabbed her over eighty times in her legs, chest, neck, face, hands, buttocks, and back. After some of the knives broke or bent, Hager instructed Johnson and Barnett to retrieve more knives.
At some point, Hager put White face down into the water and stood on top of her to make sure that she was dead. When Barnett insisted that they go, Hager “said that he couldn’t leave because he could get the death penalty for it, and he wanted to make sure that she was dead.”
After Hager was convinced that White was dead, he, King, Johnson, and Barnett proceeded out the door, but not before taking the telephone off of the hook and locking the door behind them, leaving Alexis alone in the apartment with her dead mother.
On their way back to the District, Hager counseled the others not to tell anyone about the murder and teased Barnett for being scared. He also mocked White’s pleas for her life and her concern for Alexis. He later bragged that Johnson and Barnett “were soldiers now, and that [they] go hard.”
Teresa Lewis was executed by the State of Virginia for the murder of her husband and stepson. Teresa Lewis would be executed by lethal injection on September 23, 2010. Lewis was the first and so far only woman to be executed in the State since 1912
Teresa Lewis was born on April 26, 1969 in Danville Virginia. Lewis would get married at sixteen years old and had a daughter however the marriage would soon crumble. Lewis began an addiction to painkillers and alcohol
Teresa Lewis would begin working at a textile mile where she would soon marry the manager, Julian Clifton Lewis Jr. Julian older son would die in a car accident and he would inherit two hundred thousand dollars.
In 2002 Julian youngest son Charles Jr Lewis obtained a $250,000 life insurance policy as he was deploying to Iraq naming his father as the beneficiary and Teresa as the secondary beneficiary.
The next month Teresa began an affair with two much younger men, Matthew Jessee Shallenberger and Rodney Lamont Fuller. Soon the plan came forward to get rid of her husband and stepson to collect the insurance money.
The first time Shallenberger and Fuller attempted to kill Teresa’s husband failed so the pair would try again a week later. The two men shoot both of the men as they lay sleeping in their beds. Teresa Lewis would wait 45 minutes before calling the police. When police arrived Julian would tell them that his wife knew who shot him before passing away. Teresa Lewis attempted to stick to the story the two murders were the result of a home invasion.
Teresa Lewis attempted to withdraw $50,000 from her husbands account and police would also learn that she was gathering the assets of her husband and stepson before the funeral even took place. Teresa Lewis would be arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder.
The judge in the case would rule that Teresa Lewis was the mastermind of the double murders and sentenced her to death. Teresa Lewis would be executed by lethal injection on September 23, 2010
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A 41-year-old woman who conspired to murder her husband and stepson has been executed in the US state of Virginia.
Teresa Lewis was the first woman to be put to death in the US for five years and in Virginia since 1912.
Lewis, who had learning difficulties, used sex and cash to persuade hitmen to kill her family in 2002.
The US Supreme Court and Virginia’s governor refused to stop her execution, which took place at 2100 (0100 GMT) at Greensville Correctional Center
Lewis spent her last hours with her spiritual adviser and family members at the prison in the city of Jarratt.
She requested a final meal of two breasts of fried chicken, sweet peas with butter, a slice of either German cake or apple pie, and a Dr Pepper soft drink, prison spokesman Larry Traylor said.
As she was escorted into the death chamber, Lewis appeared tearful, her jaw clenched, Associated Press reported.
Shortly before her execution, Lewis asked if her stepdaughter Kathy Clifton, daughter of her murdered husband Julian Lewis, was there.
Ms Clifton was in a witness room separated from the execution chamber by a two-way mirror.
“I want Kathy to know that I love her and I’m very sorry,” Lewis said.
Those were her final words. The time of her death was given as 2113 (0113 GMT).
On 30 October 2002, Lewis left the door to her family home in the Virginia city of Danville unlocked for gunmen Matthew Shallenberger and Rodney Fuller.
Lewis’s husband Julian, 51, and stepson, Charles Lewis, 25, were later found dead from shotgun blasts.
Lawyers for Lewis filed a petition for clemency on 25 August 2010, but the US Supreme Court refused to intervene. Two of three women in the nine-judge court voted to halt the execution.
Lewis, who has an IQ of 72, claimed that she did not possess the intelligence to have planned the killings, and that new defence evidence allegedly proved one of the gunmen manipulated her.
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell said medical and psychological reports provided no compelling reason to grant clemency to Lewis, noting she had admitted her role in the killings.
“After numerous evaluations, no medical professional has concluded that Teresa Lewis meets the medical or statutory definition of mentally retarded,” Mr McDonnell said after he rejected the clemency plea.
Lewis was motivated to hire the gunmen by the desire to inherit her husband’s assets and her stepson’s life insurance. She paid for the weapons and ammunition used in the murders.
Shallenberger and Fuller were both sentenced to life in prison. Shallenberger committed suicide in 2006.
Virginia carries out the second highest number of executions of any state in the US.
Teresa Lewis spent her last days praying and singing hymns, but she appeared frightened and tense as she entered Virginia’s death chamber.
Lewis, 41, died by injection at 9:13 p.m. Thursday at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., according to The Associated Press.
Lewis’ final words were a message for the daughter of the husband she had killed.
“I just want Kathy to know that I love her, and I’m very sorry,” she said.
Her death brought an end to the debate over whether Lewis deserved to die, with supporters saying she was borderline mentally retarded, despite the prosecution’s claim that she was the mastermind of her husband’s and stepson’s murders.
Her attorney, James Rocap III, said Lewis was peaceful before going to her death and had been praying and singing in the days leading up to her execution.
“We thought that we were supposed to be helping her, while she was actually helping us,” Rocap said.
But when Teresa Lewis entered the death chamber to be strapped onto a guerney and injected with the lethal cocktail of drugs, her jaw was visibly clenched. She looked around tensely and appeared frightened, witnesses reported.
In the chamber with her were 14 corrections officers who assisted her onto the guerney and secured her to it with heavy leather straps.
Moments before her execution, Teresa Lewis asked if her husband’s daughter — her stepdaughter — was near. She was. Kathy Clifton was in an adjacent witness room blocked from the inmate’s view by a two-way mirror. Lewis then gave her final words of farewell to her.
As the drugs flowed into her body, her feet bobbed but she otherwise remained motionless. A guard tapped her lightly on the shoulder, reassuringly, as she slipped into death.
Teresa Lewis was sentenced to die for concocting a grisly plan to hire two hit men to kill her husband and stepson in October 2002. Lewis stood by while Julian Lewis and son Charles Lewis were shot at close range as they slept.
She had promised the killers a cut of a life insurance policy to carry out the murders. Both triggermen were sentenced to life in prison, and one committed suicide in 2006.
Despite the controversy surrounding her execution, the Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal earlier this week, and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell had denied her petitions for clemency.
On the website Save Teresa Lewis, run by supporters who tried to have her death sentence commuted, a message was posted in which Lewis thanked them for their work on her behalf. They also posted a farewell Lewis had recently written to fellow inmates.
“Man wants me to die, but I’m not worrying over this, I’m trusting Jesus,” she wrote. She urged the prisoners to turn to Jesus promising, “He will forgive you of all your sins and He will bring you into His loving arms.”
Teresa Lewis, case number 09-4, became the 12th woman to be put to death in the United States since 1976, and left behind 60 women remaining on death row nationally, who constitute less than 2 percent of the total death row population. She joined a group of about 40 women who have been executed in the United States in the past 100 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a group that opposes the death penalty and tracks its impact.
Those opposed to Lewis’ death sentence said the fact that she was a woman should not allow her to be treated differently. What they found troublesome was that Teresa Lewis, with an IQ of 72, was borderline mentally retarded and received a more severe sentence than those who pulled the trigger.
“It would be grossly unfair if the one person among those involved who is probably the least danger to society, who is certainly no more guilty than those who carried out the murders and whose disabilities call out for mercy, is the only person scheduled to die for this crime,” said Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.
Vincent Parker was sixteen years old when he beat his parents to death with a crowbar. According to court documents Vincent Parker was upset with his parents who took away his iPad. Vincent would spray his mother with bear spray before striking her repeatedly with a crowbar and a baseball bat. Vincent would wait for his father to come home and then would stab him and beat him with the crowbar. The teen killer would plead guilty to the double murder and was sentenced to twenty five years in prison
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UPDATE: Vincent Parker, the teen who admitted to murdering his parents, learned his fate on Thursday.
He has been sentenced to nearly 25 years. He’ll be in juvenile detention until the age of 21. He will then be transferred to the penitentiary for 21 years and 10 months.
On one of the second degree murder charges, he was sentenced to 40 years. All of this time was suspended on the condition that he stay with the Juvenile Justice system until the age of 21.
On the other murder charge Vincent Parker was also sentenced to 40 years and all but 21 years and 10 months were suspended.
Police say while in court, Parker’s maternal uncle yelled and lunged at him after testimony during the sentencing hearing in Norfolk. The uncle was restrained by deputies and removed from the court room. He was not charged and was released. UPDATE: 10th-grader who admitted to murdering parents because they took away iPod sentenced
Norfolk, Va. – A smart and talented Norview High School 10th-grader admitted in court today he killed his parents a week before Christmas because he was weary of their seemingly routine punishments, “like my dad taking away my iPod and stuff.”
Vincent Parker attacked his mother Carol as she emerged from an upstairs bathroom in their Bland Street home. He admitted to police he doused his mother with pepper spray, stabbed her in the eye, and then beat her in the face and head with a baseball bat and a crowbar “until she stopped breathing.” A medical examiner identified 25 separate smashes and stabs to Carol Parker’s neck, face and head.
When Vincent’s father Wayne Parker came home, Vincent struck him with a crowbar and stabbed him several times. Wayne Parker lived long enough to tell police what happened. After first trying to say his father was the aggressor, Vincent admitted he killed his parents. Vincent was Carol and Wayne’s only child.
“I just remember getting mad,” he told investigators. “It’s all from my dad. All this stuff like my dad taking away my iPod and stuff.”
Those details and statements were included in the prosecutor’s “stipulation of facts” presented to a judge Wednesday. Vincent, who is 16, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in adult court. He’ll return to Norfolk Circuit Court in September to learn his sentence.
Why an honor-roll student with no criminal record snapped so violently over such benign punishments is a mystery to his family.
“He is a smart young man,” said his grandfather, Allen Taylor, father of Carol Taylor. “He is smart in school. I don’t know what happened.”
Defense attorney Emily Munn told the judge a psychiatric evaluation showed Vincent was both sane and intelligent. Even though Vincent is being sentenced as an adult, Munn told the judge she is going to ask the court to consider letting him serve at least part of his sentence in a juvenile facility. He could face decades in prison if he’s sentenced to the maximum for both murders. His grandfather is hoping for a much shorter punishment.
“I want him to get some type of counseling,” he said. “Help him to grow up and be an understanding man. Be sorry for what he did do. I told him to ask God to forgive him for what he did.”
When asked if he forgave his grandson, Taylor said: “Well, yes, I have. Because if I don’t forgive him, who will?
“We had to give it to God,” he said. “He is the only one who can help us now.”
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