6 'Evil' Inmates Executed for Horrifying Murders

some of the worst criminals in our. nation sit on death row awaiting. execution dates that could come at. almost any time but strings of appeals. requests for clemency they can seem like. justice denied for victims families who. sometimes live for decades without a. sense of closure but the stories of what. happened to these victims and why. inmates and their attorneys say they. deserve leniency can give us a unique. window into this part of our Criminal. Justice System we're going to take a. closer look at the most notable cases. behind a of these killers as the United.

States carried out its last execution of. the year on December 19th welcome to. sidebar presented by law on crime I'm. Jesse. Weber in 2024 25 death row inmates were. executed across nine states all were men. convicted of murder and nearly all were. injected with lethal drugs to carry out. their sentence the only state to use a. different method was Alabama which. carried out six executions using lethal.

gas instead now of the 25 inmates the. shortest amount of time that any of them. spent Behind Bars before their deaths. was six years this is according to the. nonprofit death penalty information. center the longest get this a whopping. 38 years this is why we talk about so. many times people sit on death row for. decades 27 States they still allow death. as a punishment for crimes as does the. United States government military in. some cases as as of 2024 the death.

penalty was on hold by executive action. in five states but capital punishment is. still legally on the books Let's get. into this right now we're going to go. through a series of cases one of the. states that does allow capital. punishment is Oklahoma where Kevin Ray. Underwood was the last death row inmate. to be executed in 2024 on December 19th. and in fact it was his 45th birthday. when he was executed so what did he do. in 2006 then 26-year-old Underwood.

killed Jaimie Rose Bolan a 10-year-old. girl in purcel Oklahoma according to the. Associated Press jimie lived with her. dad in the same building as Underwood. who was a former grocery store worker. the Norman transcript this Oklahoma news. Outlet reported that Underwood lur Jamie. to his apartment hit her with a cutting. board and then suffocated and sexually. assaulted her Underwood later told. officers he had fantasies about cutting.

up Jamie and eating her he reportedly. tried to cut off her head in the bathtub. but he gave up so he ends up putting her. naked body into a plastic tub and seals. it up with duct tape now two days after. Jaime's disappearance police ended up. stopping Underwood at this roadblock. that had been set up as part of the. search and Underwood actually asked the. police when they planned on talking to. him because he was the last person to. see Jamie alive FBI agents they. questioned Underwood eventually went. with him back to his apartment apartment.

where they found the plastic tub in a. closet Underwood told the agents a body. was inside reportedly confessed to. murdering and attempting to decapitate. Jaimie defense attorneys tough job for. them for Underwood they argue that his. trial should be moved to another County. due to inescapable media coverage of the. case that request was actually granted. and when he finally went to trial in. 2008 it was in Cleveland County. Underwood's tape confession it was. played for the jury the Norman.

transcript reports that neither. Underwood's parents nor Jaime's family. were in the courtroom when that. confession was played understandable. considering what he's talking about and. in it Underwood had said that he had. been planning this murder for months but. he also said this was entirely against. his nature it took only 20 minutes for. the jury to come back and find Underwood. guilty it's one of the fastest verdicts. I've ever seen Jaime's grandmother Rose. Fox was reported as saying you attack. our children our Innocents the state of.

Oklahoma will hunt you down like a rabid. dog and put you down like a rabid dog on. March 7th 2008 the jury deliberated for. around 8 hours and determined that. Underwood should die by lethal injection. and a few weeks later a district court. judge formally sentenced him to death. row now there was an appeal it was heard. in 2010 with attorneys and behalf of. Underwood arguing that his. constitutional rights were violated when. he was questioned about the murder by. police but the state argued look.

Underwood had come to them as a witness. and they just proceeded accordingly this. appeal was unanimously rejected so now. you fast forward to 2024 and Underwood. had spent more than a decade Behind Bars. his defense team tried to do one more. thing they tried to seek Mercy in. November and the US court of appeals for. the 10 circuit actually issued a stay of. execution on December 9th so that a. clemency hearing could be held but the.

Oklahoma parted and Parole Board denied. Underwood clemency on December 13th. according to the Department of. Corrections Underwood's last meal was. chicken fried steak mashed potatoes. gravy pinto beans Hot Roll cheeseburger. and fries in his final words Underwood. said I would like to apologize again for. all the terrible things that I did I. hate that I did those things and I wish. I could take them back but he also said. the decision to execute me on my. birthday and 6 days before Christmas was.

a needlessly cruel thing to do to my. family but I'm very sorry for what I did. and I wish I could take it back Mr. Underwood died by lethal injection at. the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on. December 19th 2024 I got to thank our. incredible partner Morgan and Morgan. because it's with their support that. we're able to do this so here's the deal. if you should get injured you got to. know your legal rights and whether you. can be compensated in Morgan and Morgan. Amer America's largest injury Law Firm.

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now let's talk about the fact that the. state of Utah has only executed eight. prisoners since the reinstatement of the. death penalty in. 1976 and one of those people is tabon. Hony he was the only inmate put to death. in 2024 more than 25 years ago Hony. murdered his ex-girlfriend's Mother. breaking into her home raping her and. stabbing her to death and what may be. the sickest twist in this case is that. This Woman's grandchildren her.

granddaughters were actually in the. house when all this happened here's what. we know about the case 1995 Hony starts. this relationship with Claudia Ben's. daughter Carol the couple had a daughter. together but the relationship ended in. 1998 Carol and her 2-year-old they had. moved in with Claudia in Cedar City and. that is when according to court records. Hony threatened Carol and her family. members saying if Carol didn't make time. to see him he would kill her loved ones. Carol reportedly didn't take the threat.

seriously she leaves to go to work that. night the 22-year-old Hony made good on. his promise he breaks into Claudia's. home sexually assaults her and then. murders her he was actually arrested at. the crime scene and as I mentioned all. three grandchildren were found with. blood on them from this just absolutely. brutal attack on their grandmother. 49-year-old Claudia Ben according to her. obituary moved her family from Arizona.

to Utah following a divorce eventually. earned a degree in sociology from the. University of Utah she worked at the. school's Women's Resource Center before. becoming a substance abuse counselor for. the Peyote tribe just to give you a. sense of who she was in 1999 Hony was. officially sentenced to death for. aggravated murder burglary object rape. forcable sodomy capital punishment was. determined to be appropriate because of. this aggravating factor that Hony was. found to have sexually abused used one.

of the children that was inside the home. during the murder and Hony he appealed. his conviction several times since then. including in Utah District Court the. state supreme court the federal district. court he and his attorneys have argued. that he had an abusive childhood he was. heavily Intoxicated by drugs and alcohol. on the night of the murder but all of. his appeals were denied in May of 2024. Utah's attorney general filed a request. for hony's execution warrant his. execution date was actually set for. August 8th in June Hony filed a petition.

for clemency while his attorneys filed. motions to Halt the execution the Utah. Board of Pardons and Parole heard his. plea for commutation but they denied it. beginning of August hony's attorneys. even asked Utah's governor for a. temporary reprieve denied Hony was. executed on August 8th according to the. Utah Department of Corrections his last. meal was a cheeseburger fries and a. milkshake when he spoke his last words. Hony told those that were still in.

prison that it's possible for a person. to change saying from the start it's. been if it needs to be done for them to. heal let's do this if they tell you you. can't change don't listen to them to all. my brothers and sisters in here continue. to change I love you all take care. another murder from the 1990s that has. haunted a family for decades as they. waited for justice to be served was in. relation to the murder of a former St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter who had. been stabbed dozens of times 42-year-old.

Felicia Leisa Gale was found dead in the. Missouri home that she shared with her. husband Daniel pickus on August 11th. 1998 according to investigators she'd. done her usual morning routine of going. for a run and showering when she got. back home but on this fateful morning. when she left the bathroom she found her. killer on the stairway landing at some. point that killer had grabbed a kitchen. knife and he stabbed Lea 43 times he.

then proceeded to flee the house with. her purse and her husband's laptop and. talking about her husband Mr pickus he. came home that evening to find his wife. dead in the foyer Lea's family announced. a $110,000 reward for information that. would lead to the arrest and conviction. of this killer a jailhouse inmate is. what really happened here came forward. to say marcelus Williams did it he said. Williams confessed to him while the two. were locked up together Williams was.

apparently doing time for an unrelated. robbery and Williams own girlfriend also. told investigators that Williams had. confess to her court records showed. though both the inmate and Williams. girlfriend they had their own criminal. histories including drug addiction and. both of them have since died but. nonetheless Williams was convicted and. he was sentenced to death he has always. though maintained his innocence and even. one of the prosecutors in the case. actually came forward saying the. execution should be called off the. defense attorneys argued that the.

stories from the two informants weren't. consistent that they changed over time. sometimes those stories completely. contradicted one another and recent DNA. testing showed evidence contamination. this is according to CNN according to. the state's judicial branch attorneys. received a report indicating the DNA on. the murder weapon belonged to an. assistant prosecuting attorney and an. investigator who had handled the murder. weapons without gloves prior to trial. but here's the thing the Attorney. General's office they said the contamin. ation doesn't prove that Williams didn't.

commit the crime and said that the case. didn't rely solely upon forensic. evidence found at the scene Lea's. personal items like the purse and the. laptop that were stolen from her home. they were reportedly found in Williams. car after the murder and this case. actually made its way all the way to the. United States Supreme Court which denied. him a stay of execution Missouri. governor Mike Parsons released a state. statement on the ruling saying no jury.

nor Court including at the trial appell. and Supreme Court levels have ever found. Merit in Mr Williams innocence claims at. the end of the day his guilty verdict. and sentence of capital punishment were. upheld nothing from the real facts of. this case have led me to believe in Mr. Williams innocence as such Mr Williams. punishment will be carried out as. ordered by the Supreme Court but I will. tell you some of Gail's family members. supported the idea of keeping Williams. in prison for the rest of his life. instead of killing him and then the St.

Louis prosecuting attorney's office said. that it had reached an agreement with. Williams a month before his sentence was. to be carried out under a consent. agreement which the office said was. approved by Lea's family Williams would. enter an Alfred plea to first-degree. murder and be resentenced to life in. prison an alfha plea is a guilty plea. but basically you're admitting that the. prosecutors likely have enough evidence. to convict you but you're still claiming. that you're Innocent but here's the. thing the Attorney General's office.

opposed the deal appealed to the. Missouri Supreme Court which threw out. the consent agreement Williams lethal. injection was carried out on September. 24th after he'd spent 23 years in prison. his last words according to CNN were. reportedly all praise be to Allah in. every situation the Missouri Department. of Corrections reported he had chicken. wings and tater tots for his last meal. in November the state of South Carolina. carried out the execution of Richard.

Moore a 59-year-old Man convicted of. killing a convenience store clerk Moore. was found guilty in September of 1999. sentenced to death two years later so. according to NPR Moore had gone into. this store in Spartanburg unarmed but. what happened was he and the clerk James. Mahoney apparently argued because Moore. was 12 cents short for what he wanted to. buy Moore took the clerk's gun but. Mahoney drew a second weapon shooting. more in the arm Moore fired back hitting. Mahoney in the chest and Moore then went.

behind the counter and stole more than. $1,000 according to a clemency petition. a drug addiction had clouded Mo's. judgment that day and after being put on. death row Moore's execution was. postponed twice South Carolina ended up. putting a pause and executions for more. than a decade while it tried to work out. problems with the death penalty. including the fact that companies. refused to sell lethal injection drugs. to the state so after putting a secrecy. law in place executions ultimately. resumed and there was this outpouring of.

support for moris his November 2024. execution date approached you might have. seen it Moore's lawyers asked Governor. Henry McMaster to reduce Mo senten to. life in prison without the possibility. of parole they pointed to Moore's. spotless prison record his work. mentoring other inmates as proof that he. was a changed man his legal team also. reminded the governor that Moore's case. could have been considered self-defense. said it was unfair that Moore a black. man was the only inmate on South. Carolina's death row who was convicted. by a jury on which no black people.

served three jurors who had sentenced. more to death back in 2001 wrote letters. to McMaster along with a former State. Prison director Moore's trial judge. several pastors but McMaster was. unswayed he didn't give a reason in his. letter denying clemency but said he'd. reviewed all the information submitted. by Moore's lawyers and he'd also spoken. with Mahoney's family according to the. Associated Press no South Carolina. governor has offered clemency to any of. the 44 inmates executed since the.

Supreme Court allowed the death penalty. to resume in 1976 and more died from a. lethal injection on November 1st his. final words were read to reporters. outside the prison to the family of Mr. James Mahoney I am deeply sorry for the. pain and sorrow I caused you all to my. children and granddaughters I love you. and I'm so proud of you thank you for. the joy you have brought to my life to. all of my family and friends new and old. thank you for your love and support. report his final meal as reported by NPR.

was steak that was cooked medium fried. catfish shrimp scalloped potatoes green. peas broccoli with cheese sweet potato. pie German chocolate cake and grape. juice now another execution carried out. Missouri in 2024 was that of Brian dorsy. a 52-year-old man who' been locked up. for 17 years dorsy had admitted to. killing his cousin Sarah Bonnie and her. husband Benjamin inside of their New. Bloomfield Missouri home just Before. Christmas in 2006 according to court.

filings then 34-year-old Brian dorsy. called his cousin to say that he owed. money to drug dealers who were looking. for him and he was scared for his life. the Bonnies brought dorsy to their home. agreeing that he could take refuge with. them but during the night dorsy got a. shotgun out of the Bonnie's garage and. shot them both as they slept prosecutors. say he then sexually assaulted his. cousin's body and then stole several. things from the home to try to pay off. the drug de. and to make just an absolutely horrific.

situation even worse the Bonnie's. four-year-old daughter was in this home. during the attack yeah she was. thankfully unharmed during the course of. this but family members went to the. Bonnie's home after they didn't show up. for a plan get together and that is when. they found the four-year-old sitting on. the couch watching TV she reportedly. told her grandparents that her mom. wouldn't Wake Up Now dorsy apparently. turned himself in the day after. Christmas according to to lawyers. representing him on appeal the public.

defenders assigned to his case in 2006. encouraged him to plead guilty despite. having no agreement with prosecutors. that they would spare him from the death. penalty according to the Associated. Press the public defenders were paid a. flat fee of about $12,000 which some of. theorise gave them a good reason to get. through this case as quickly as possible. and on to the next one dorsy has also. said that he was experiencing drug and. du psychosis at the time of the murders. he plad guilty to two counts a. first-degree murder in jury was seated. for the sentencing phase he testified.

during the sentencing hearing that while. he remembered being at the Bonnie's. house and even holding the shotgun in. their bedroom he doesn't remember. shooting them he also said he didn't. remember having sex with Sarah corpse. despite the fact that DNA evidence. confirm that he did the jury recommended. death based on seven aggravating factors. and among those factors was dorsey's. assault on Sarah's body despite the. horrific nature of this crime dozens of. people ended up coming forward. to fight for clemency on his behalf and.

that included dozens of Missouri. Corrections Department employees ahead. of dorsey's execution retired. Corrections Department Officer Tim. Lancaster said in a statement I knew. Brian dorsy for many years and I can say. without hesitation that he was. completely rehabilitated Brian cut my. hair and we would talk and I know he. felt deep shame and remorse about what. he had done he was a good person who. made a mistake and was working to do. better I thought that was what we hoped. for by sending people to prison at least.

one of dorsey's cousins who was also. related to Sarah had stated that she. hoped dorsy would be spared from a death. sentence but other family members said. they wanted him executed for the sake of. achieving Justice this is according to. CNN Governor Mike Parson denied the bid. for clemency and the US Supreme Court. rejected his final appeal in April in a. statement Governor Parson said that. dorsy punished his loving family for. helping him in a time of need his. cousins invited him into their home. where he was surrounded by family and.

friends then gave him a place to stay. dorsy repa them with cruelty inhumane. violence and murder for his final meal. before his execution dorsy had. cheeseburgers chicken strips fries and a. pizza he was killed by lethal injection. on April 9th as part of his final words. dorsy wrote to all of the family and. loved ones I share with Sarah and to all. the surviving family and loved ones of. Ben I am totally deeply overwhelmingly. sorry words cannot hold the just weight.

of my guilt and shame I still love you I. never wanted to hurt anyone I am sorry I. hurt them and you what an episode right. these are just horrific horrific crimes. and I will say our thoughts are with the. families of the victims in these cases. we hope these final parts of these long. legal proceedings maybe bring at least. some sense of closure if not peace. and all of this as the United States.

continues to Grapple with whether the. death penalty should remain on the books. Nationwide we may one day be able to. look back on these cases with new. insight and Clarity if that's the case. for now the most severe punishment is. allowed under the law the loss of one's. life it remains part of the justice. system in more than half of US states. that's all we have for you right now. here on sidebar everybody thank you so. much for join joining us as always.

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