On this date in 2001, Terrance Anthony James suffered lethal injection in Oklahoma for the vicious murder of a suspected jailhouse snitch.
Awaiting trial in 1983 for theft of government property, James became convinced that a fellow-inmate was responsible for his arrest, and proceeded to strangle Mark Allen Berry with a wire.
Usually, in death penalty cases, it’s the jailhouse snitch who does the killing.
On this day..
- 2002: Johnny Joe Martinez
- 1538: John Forest and the image of Saint Derfel Gadarn
- 1918: Edla Sofia Hjulgrén, Finnish parliamentarian
- 1889: Fulgence-Benjamin Geomay, at the Paris Exposition
- 1916: Four French soldiers of the 96 RI
- 1929: Nikolaus Karlovich von Meck, wrecker
- 1824: Antonio Brochetti, galley-dodger
- 1942: Stjepan Filipovic, "death to fascism, freedom to the people!"
- 1856: Casey and Cora, by the San Francisco Vigilance Committee
- 1393: The Muzaffarids, by Timur
- 1946: Karl Hermann Frank
- 1833: Midgegooroo, Noongar rebel