Capital punishment is a legal punishment under the criminal justice system of the United States federal government. It is the most serious punishment that could be imposed under federal law. The serious crimes that warrant this punishment include treason, espionage, murder, large-scale drug trafficking, or attempted murder of a witness, juror, or court officer in certain cases.
San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (SQ), formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated place of San Quentin in Marin County.
Joseph Paul Franklin was an American serial killer, white supremacist, and domestic terrorist who engaged in a murder spree spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three offences—including murder, drug trafficking, terrorism, use of firearms and kidnapping—warrant the death penalty under Singapore law.
Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins Jr. was an American serial killer and rapist from South Carolina who stabbed, shot, drowned, and poisoned more than a dozen people. Before his convictions for murder, Gaskins had a long history of criminal activities resulting in prison sentences for assault, burglary, and statutory rape. His last arrest was for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, 13-year-old Kim Gehlken, who had gone missing in September 1975. During their search for the missing girl, police discovered eight bodies buried in shallow graves near Gaskins' home in Prospect, South Carolina.
Dexter Morgan, also known as The Bay Harbor Butcher, is a fictional serial killer and the antihero protagonist of the Dexter book series written by Jeff Lindsay, as well as the television series of the same name. Dexter is mainly portrayed by Michael C. Hall in the original series and by Patrick Gibson in Original Sin.
Opened in 1969, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison (GDCP) is a Georgia Department of Corrections prison for men in unincorporated Butts County, Georgia, near Jackson. The prison holds the state execution chamber. The execution equipment was moved to the prison in June 1980, with the first execution in the facility occurring on December 15, 1983. The prison houses the male death row, while female death row inmates reside in Arrendale State Prison.
Pedro Rodrigues Filho, also known as Pedrinho Matador, Killer Lil' Pedro, Killer Killer Petey, or simply Killer Petey, was a Brazilian serial killer, spree killer, vigilante, and YouTuber known for pursuing and killing exclusively suspected criminals as a teenager, between the age of 14 and 19, in particular an entire gang in response to the murder of his pregnant girlfriend. Officially sentenced for 71 murders but claiming to have killed over 100 drug dealers, rapists, and murderers, he served 34 years in prison before his release in 2007. In 2011, Rodrigues was imprisoned again on charges of inciting riot and deprivation of liberty; he was sentenced to eight years in prison, but was released again in 2018 after seven years on good behavior.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in South Korea. As of August 2023, there were 59 people on death row in South Korea. The method of execution is hanging.
On April 2, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, California, United States. Seven people were killed, and three others were injured. One L. Goh, a former student at the school, was taken into custody and identified as the suspect in the shooting. It is the deadliest mass killing in the city's history.
Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. was an American serial killer and convicted rapist who was executed in Florida for murder. In 1986, Bolin kidnapped and murdered three young women in Tampa, Florida. He was later connected to a fourth murder in Texas in 1987. The murders went unsolved for nearly four years, until the husband of his ex-wife called a tip line and implicated him. He maintained his innocence to the end.
Manuel "Manny" Pardo Jr. was an American serial killer and former police officer previously employed by the Florida Highway Patrol and the Sweetwater Police Department. Between January and April 1986, he killed nine known victims. He was convicted on nine counts of first degree murder, for which he was sentenced to death; he was executed in December 2012.
In capital punishment, a volunteer is a prisoner who wishes to be sentenced to death. Often, volunteers will waive all appeals in an attempt to expedite the sentence. In the United States, execution volunteers constitute approximately 10% of prisoners on death row. Volunteers can sometimes bypass legal procedures which are designed to designate the death penalty for the most serious offenders. Other prisoners have killed in prison with the desire of receiving the death sentence. Opponents of execution volunteering cited the prevalence of mental illness among volunteers comparing it to a form of suicide. Execution volunteering has received considerably less attention and effort at legal reform than those who were exonerated after execution.
Charles Arnett Stevens, known as The I-580 Killer, is an American serial killer who shot eight people along California Interstate-580 in 1989, killing four of them. He was sentenced to death and currently resides in San Quentin State Prison.
Cimarron Bernard Bell is an American serial killer who was convicted for the murders of his girlfriend and three men in California, committed during separate incidents in 2003 and 2004. Sentenced to death for the killings, he remains on death row awaiting execution.
Nathaniel Robert Code Jr. is an American serial killer and stalker who tortured and murdered between eight and twelve individuals in the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, between 1984 and 1987. Among his killings was the mass murder of four members of the Cheney-Culbert family on Cedar Grove in 1985, the crimes for which he was nicknamed The Cedar Grove Killer. Tried for only those murders, he was found guilty and sentenced to death in December 1990.
Mervin Ray Hughes, known as The Serial Shooter, is an American serial killer who committed at least eight drive-by shootings during a two-week spree in Oakland, California, in 1999, killing two people. He had previously been convicted of manslaughter in a 1986 shooting death and was suspected of killing a man in another city in 1992. Hughes was found guilty of his known crimes and was sentenced to death in 2005.
Pamela Irene Butler was a ten-year-old American girl who was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by Keith Dwayne Nelson in October 1999. Nelson kidnapped Butler while she was rollerblading in front of her house in Kansas City, Kansas. He then took her to a forest in Grain Valley, Missouri, where he raped her before strangling her to death with a wire. Nelson pleaded guilty to the charges pertaining to the murder of Butler and he was sentenced to death by a federal jury in November 2001. Nelson was incarcerated for nearly 21 years before he was put to death by lethal injection on August 28, 2020, becoming the fifth person to be executed by the U.S. federal government after the resumption of federal executions in July 2020.
Ralph Leroy Menzies is an American convicted murderer currently on death row in Utah for the 1986 murder of Maurine Hunsaker, a gas station attendant who was kidnapped and shot to death by Menzies. Menzies was convicted of the murder and sentenced to death on March 23, 1988, and he is currently awaiting to be executed by firing squad, with the state filing a motion to seek an approval of his execution.
