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1 day ago · PRINCE ALBERT — A public inquest into the death of Barry Fontaine will be held Dec. 9 to 13, at the Coronet Hotel, 3551-2nd Ave. W., in Prince Albert. Fontaine, 53, was found unconscious in his cell at the Prince Albert Provincial Correctional Centre (PAPCC) on Nov. 4, 2021. EMS was called and PAPCC staff began life-saving efforts.
- Donald Grant
- Matthew Reeves
- Gilbert Ray Postelle
- Carl Wayne Buntion
- Carman Deck
- Clarence Dixon
- Frank Atwood
- Joe Nathan James Jr.
- Kosoul Chanthakoummane
- James Coddington
Oklahoma executed Grant, 46, on January 27. He was sentenced to death for the murder of two employeesat a LaQuinta Inn in Del City during a robbery in 2001. His final words were reportedto be disjointed and incoherent. "Yo, God, I got this," Grant said, according to witnesses. "No medication. I didn't take nothing. Brooklyn for life."
Alabama executed Reeves, 43, for a 1996 murder on January 27. He was convicted of killing Willie Johnson Jr., a driver who gave Reeves and his friends a ride when their vehicle broke down. Evidence showed Reeves went to a party afterward and celebrated the killing. Reeves remained silent during his execution at Holman Prison.
Oklahoma executed Postelle, 35, on February 17. He was sentenced to diefor his involvement in the Memorial Day 2005 shooting deaths of James Alderson, Terry Smith, Donnie Swindle and Amy Wright at a home in southeast Oklahoma City. Postelle's attorneys had argued that he should not be executed for various reasons, including a learning disability.
Texas executed Buntion, who at 78 was then the state's oldest death row inmate, on April 21. Buntion had been out on parole when he fatally shot Houston police officer James Irby, 37, during a traffic stop in June 1990. Buntion's attorneys had argued that his sentence should be commuted, describing him in a clemency petition as "a frail, elderly ma...
Deck, 56, died by lethal injection at Missouri's state prison in Bonne Terre on May 3. He was sentenced to deathfor killing a couple, James and Zelma Long, during a robbery at their rural home in 1996. "My hope is that one day the world will find peace and that we all will learn to be kind and loving to one another," Deck said in a written final st...
Arizona executed Dixon, 66, on May 11. It was the state's first execution in nearly eight years after executions were suspended following the botched 2014 execution of Joseph Wood. Dixon was sentenced to deathfor the killing of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin. Prosecutors said Bowdoin had been raped, strangled and stabbed...
Arizona executed Atwood, 66, on June 8. He was convictedof killing 8-year-old Vicki Lynne Hoskinson in 1984. She went missing on September 17, 1984, while riding her bike in Tucson and her remains were discovered in the desert the following April. Atwood's attorneys had asked courts to delay his execution, arguing that Atwood's degenerative spinal ...
James, 50, received a lethal injectionin Alabama on July 28. He was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 shooting death of his ex-girlfriend Faith Hall, 26, in Birmingham. Hall's daughters, who were three and six when their mother was killed, had said they wanted James to serve life in prisonrather than be put to death. Officials took three...
Chanthakoummane, 41, received a lethal injection in Texas on August 17. He was sentenced to death for the killing of 40-year-old Sarah Walker, a suburban Dallas real estate agent, in 2006. He used his final statementto thank Jesus Christ, ministers with the Texas prison system and "all these people in my life that aided me in this journey." Chantha...
Coddington, 50, was executed at Oklahoma's state penitentiary on August 25. He admitted to killing 73-year-old Albert Hale, a friend and co-worker who refused to loan him $50 to buy cocaine. Coddington beat Hale on the head at least three times with a hammer inside Hale's home in Choctaw in 1997. He was the first of 25 death row inmates whose execu...
15 years, 39 days. Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss. Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 198 days. Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance. Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 49 days.
NameDescription Of CrimeTime On Death RowTortured and murdered his girlfriend's ...6 years, 345 daysMurder of 9-year-old Autumn Wallace.32 years, 121 daysKidnap, rape and murder of 5-year-old ...19 years, 180 daysMurdered three men during an attempted ...34 years, 348 daysNov 17, 2017 · Last updated on November 6, 2024. to reflect executions that occurred in the previous 24 hours. Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions. For information on all known warrants this year, see the Outcome of Death Warrants in 2024 page.
The number of death row inmates fluctuates daily with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [1] Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions , the information in this article may be out of date. [ 2 ]
Mar 13, 2019 · These are the 737 inmates on California's death row. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to impose a moratorium on the death penalty in California. The order will prevent the state from ...
Aug 14, 2012 · Goodnight, one, two, there it goes.”. An analysis earlier this year showed the most commonly used word in prisoners’ last statements is “love.”. That is followed by “family,” “thank ...
