Ronald Gene Simmons, Sr. was a retired United States Air Force master sergeant who murdered 16 people in a psychotic riot over a week long phase in 1987. The riot included 14 of Simmons family themselves. The murders commenced December 22 in Dover and prolonged until December 28, 1987. It is alleged that a brief time afore Christmas of 1987, Simmons decided to murder all the members of his family. On December 22, he first executed his son Gene and his wife Rebecca at his home in Dover, by firing a .22 caliber pistol. Following the two was his 3 year old granddaughter Barbara by asphyxiation. Simmons discarded the bodies in the pit he had made his children dig. Simmons then anticipated for his other children to arrive to the house and after …show more content…
Next he had gone to an oil corporation, where he killed a man named J.D. Chaffin and wounded the owner, Rusty Taylor and then drove to a previously work place wounding two more people. Next, Simmons voyaged to Woodline Motor Freight Company, where he wounded a woman. Simmons then procured Vickie Jackson hostage at gunpoint and according to court documents, told her that he had "got" everyone that partook in "hurting" him. When police appeared, Simmons passed over his gun and surrendered without a …show more content…
He did not plea his death sentence and stated "To those who oppose the death penalty in my particular case, anything short of death would be cruel and unusual punishment." He created a further statement, under oath, accompanying his punishment: "I, Ronald Gene Simmons, Sr., want it to be known that it is my wish and my desire that absolutely no action by anybody be taken to appeal or in any way change this sentence. It is further respectfully requested that this sentence be carried out expeditiously." On May 31 1990, Arkansas Governor, Bill Clinton authorized Simmons' execution and on June 25, 1990, at the age of 49, He died by the choice of lethal injection. Though He never talked about his motive for killing his family and the others, many people believe the reason Simmons lost control and wiped out his entire family was because he loved his daughter, Sheila and was angry towards her for abandoning him. Meaning if he couldn’t have happiness no one in his life would either. This was a secret Simmons would take to his grave in June of 1990 when he was put to death by lethal
In the United States Supreme Court case of Roper v. Simmons of 2005 the Supreme Court ruled in a five to four ruling that the death sentence for minors was considered “cruel and unusual punishment,” as stated by the Eighth Amendment, according to the Oyez Project online database. Christopher Simmons, the plaintiff, was only seventeen at the time of his conviction of murder. With the Roper v Simmons, 2005 Supreme Court ruling against applying the death penalty to minors, this also turned over a previous 1989 ruling of Stanford v. Kentucky that stated the death penalty was permissible for those over the age of sixteen who had committed a capital offense. The Roper v. Simmons is one of those landmark Supreme Court cases that impacted, and changed
17 years old at the time of the crime, Simmons was tried as an adult. Simmons confessed to the crime and his sole defence at trial was an attempt to dongrade his punishment through the introduction of character evidence. The jury recommended the death penalty, which was imposed by the judge. In the judgment of the US Supreme Court, the laws of other countries and international authorities were instructive for the interpretation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of ‘cruel and unusual punishment’. International consensus as reflected in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the American Convention on Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child provided respected and significant confirmation of the conclusions drawn. International agreement on the juvenile death penalty
Unfortunately Davis was never brought in. because when police were attempting to arrest him he began firing. wounding unsuspecting police officers and ultimately being killed. Douglas Walker was convicted of accessory to murder. Mike Reynolds, Kimber’s father, went on the radio on a local radio station.
...s was a federal case and a federal ruling which means that this new law outlawing the execution of anyone under the age of eighteen at the time of the crime extended its reach over the entire United States. This also overruled all state laws allowing juvenile executions. The Roper v. Simmons ruling overturned the decision from Stanford v. Kentucky which allowed the death penalty for juvenile offenders over the age of sixteen.
On May 20th of 1998 Kip Kinkel was suspended from Thurston High for possession of a gun in his locker. He purchased the gun from a classmate, however another student that had heard about the sale taking place, notified employees of the school who then contacted the police and had them investigate. Kip was taken into custody to the police station and then sent home with his father. No-one can be exactly sure what transpired between Kip and his father on the ride home or after getting to the house. After getting back, he took one of his guns, shot his father in the back of the head, killing him on the spot. He moved his father’s body into the bathroom and then covered him with a sheet. He waited throughout the day for his mother to come home. When his mother finally pulled into the driveway and began walking into the house, he killed her as well. He shot her five times in the head, and once in the heart.
American serial killer, Richard Ramirez was born on February 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas. Ramirez was known for being a satanic worshiper and for going on a two-year raped and torture rampage, harming more than 25 victims and murdering more than a dozen. Ramirez, also known as the "Night Stalker," turned to satanic worship at an early age by his cousin, a soldier who had recently returned from the war in Vietnam. Following a four-year trial, in 1989, Ramirez was convicted of 13 killings. Ramirez received the death penalty and was sent to San Quentin Prison in California. He later died on June 7, 2013, at the age 53.
One well-known serial killer is Gary Ridgway. Ridgway was born in February of 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah. His early life can be viewed as an indicator to his la...
A court case that made it to the Supreme Court was the case of Kevin Nigel Stanford, who was convicted in 1981 of a murder committed in Kentucky when he was 17 years and 4 months old. Stanford and an accomplice repeatedly raped and sodomized a 20-year-old woman during the robbery of a gas station where she worked. The men took her to a wooded area, and Stanford shot her straight in the face, then in the back of the head, to prevent her from testifying against him. Stanford's case first came to the Supreme Court in 1989. In the decision Stanford vs. Kentucky, a narrow Supreme Court majority ruled the execution of death row inmates who killed before they were 18 was not then cruel and unusual punishment, following the 8th amendment of the Constitution.
It happened on a rainy night on February 17, 1970 at the base of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Military police were responding to a call from Green Beret surgeon Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, which they thought was a routine call. When the military police arrived they discovered the slaughtered bodies of MacDonald’s wife, Colette, who was twenty six, and his two daughters Kimberley, five, and Kristen, two.
The second victim was David Spears, age forty-three. On June 1, 1990 Spears’s body was found on the side of a highway in Citrus County, Florida. He was found with no clothes on except a baseball cap and had died of six bullet wounds to the torso. The third victim was Charles Carskaddon, age forty. His body was found on June 6, 1990 in Pasco County, Florida. He was shot several times in the chest which lead to his death. The fourth victim was Troy Burress, age fifty. He was reported missing on July 31, 1990 and on August 4, 1990 police officers found his body in a wooded area along a road in Marion County, Florida. Cause of death was being shot twice. The fifth victim was Charles ‘Dick’ Humphreys, age fifty-six. His car was found in Suwannee
A week after James Neaville left the Missouri State Hospital’s psychiatric ward in April 1987, he told authorities that he was hired as an assassin by James Beckman to shoot President Reagan with an Uzi submachine gun. Later, he would t...
Richard Strout was married to Mary Ann, who was most likely fed up with his hot temperedness that always seemed to get him into fist fights. She separated from her husband and while they were going through the process of divorce, she began a new relationship with Frank Fowler, killing all hope of reconciling her marriage with Strout. In return Strout became enraged not only in losing his wife, but their sons, who now spent their days with this new man who was taking on the father role in their life. Whether it was his love for his wife and children or pride, it drove him to the only solution he could find, and that was to kill Frank. “Richard Strout shot Frank in front of the boys…Strout came in the front door and shot Frank twice in the chest and once in the face with a 9mm automatic(100).”
Richard Ramirez’s killing seemed to contain a lot of aggression in the ways he killed his victims and we will never know one hundred percent where the aggressions came from. Theories are never exact, but gives us a better understandings of serial killers as a whole.
Scott Falater wasn’t one of them though. In January 1997, Scott Fillater stabbed his wife 44 times and drowned her in the family pool at their home in Arizona. He was as well known for his sleep walking but much of his actions seemed odd for a sleepwalker. Before he committed the crime, he put on his work jeans and a pair of gloves. At the time, he was sleepwalking as he worked on the pool his wife overheard sounds coming from outside as she watched TV. It is believed that she possibly walked out there and accidentally startled him and it caused him to attack. Or he purposely lured his wife out there. After he stabbed her he changed and put his bloody clothes in his trunk compartment where his spare tire was. It is believed he retired back to his wife’s body to find her still alive. He then proceeded to drown her. This is when a neighbor over seen the murder and called 911. To this day Scott Fallater is serving his life
He never made it to the park. That same day, the little boy's savagely beaten body was discovered outside the park area (Seifert 98). Jon Venables and Robert Thompson of Liverpool, England, made international headlines in November 1994, when they were convicted of murdering James Bulger, age two. The two boys, both ten at the time of the slaying, lured James away from his mother in a shopping mall, took him to a nearby railroad track, beat him brutally and left him to be cut in half by a train (Seifert 56). Many experts do not accept that biology alone creates children who kill.