On November 28, a jury recommended the death penalty for Nelson, and on March 11, , a federal judge imposed the death penalty. William LeCroy, Jr. The carjacking was the sole basis for federal jurisdiction in the case. However, the trial court read the death-penalty statute expansively and the appeals court affirmed that interpretation of the statute. Christopher Vialva, Black male biracial , executed on September 24, Vialva and his co-defendant Brandon Bernard were convicted and sentenced to death in June for the carjacking and murder of a white couple on a remote parcel of federal land near Fort Hood in central Texas.
Vialva was 19 years old at the time of the murders, and Bernard was Four younger teenagers, aged 15 and 16, also pled guilty to federal charges relating to the crime. Vialva was the first African American executed in the modern era of the federal death penalty and the first person in 72 years to be executed by the federal government for a crime committed while he was a teenager.
Orlando Hall, Black male , executed on November 19, Hall was charged alongside Bruce Webster in Fort Worth, Texas with the abduction, sexual assault, and beating murder of a year-old black female. They were tried separately. Hall was sentenced to death in November Webster was sentenced to death in June Brandon Bernard, Black male, executed on December 10, A federal jury in Waco, TX, convicted Bernard and his co-defendant Christopher Vialva in June , of carjacking and the murder of an Iowa couple on a remote parcel of federal land near Fort Hood in central Texas.
Both were sentenced to death. Bernard was 18 years old at the time of the murders, and is the youngest offender on federal death row in more than 70 years. Vialva, who was years-old at the time of his offense, was executed on September 24, Four younger teenagers also pled guilty to federal charges relating to the crime. Alfred Bourgeois, Black male, executed on December 11, In March , a jury recommended a death sentence for Alfred Bourgeois for the murder of his daughter at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station in Texas, based in part on the testimony of a prisoner housed with Bourgeois.
Lisa Montgomery, White female, executed on January 13, On Oct. Montgomery took the baby with her to Kansas and claimed the baby was her child. Kansas City Star, Oct. Montgomery was formally sentenced to death on April 4, in U.
District Court. A lawyer for McVeigh, Robert Nigh, spoke of one of his client's final moments, looking up into the nighttime sky for the first — and last time — in years. Federal executions: I watched the execution of a killer so I could tell you about it.
McVeigh, a former U. Army soldier, was convicted of 11 counts of murder, conspiracy and using a weapon of mass destruction after detonating a fertilizer bomb in front of a downtown Oklahoma City federal building in The attack killed people, including 19 children, making it the most deadly domestic assault in U. Contact IndyStar reporter Rashika Jaipuriar at rjaipuriar gannett. Facebook Twitter Email. Timothy McVeigh had ice cream and gazed at the moon just before execution in Terre Haute.
Rashika Jaipuriar Indianapolis Star. Show Caption. Hide Caption. In a later Oklahoma state trial, he was charged with counts of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree manslaughter for the death of an unborn child, and one count of aiding in the placement of a bomb near a public building.
On May 26, , he was convicted of all charges and sentenced to consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! His resignation came amid rumors that he would soon be under investigation by the United States and Sweden Before the Civil War, citizenship was often limited to Native Americans of one-half or less On June 2, , Queen Elizabeth II is formally crowned monarch of the United Kingdom in a lavish ceremony steeped in traditions that date back a millennium.
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