Here are the details regarding the vile crimes they committed:
Thomas Sanders was sentenced to deqth after he kidnapped and then shot 12-year-Lexis Roberts four times and cut her throat in Louisiana. Before killing the girl, he forced her to watch him murder her mother on a road trip near the Grand Canyon.
Ricky Fackrell is a white supremacist who was convicted of stabbing inmate Leo Johns to death in federal prison.
Daryl Lawrence killed Columbus Police Officer Bryan Hurst during a bank robbery in 2005. The jury gave Lawrence life in prison for shooting Hurst during a robbery but a death sentence for killing him with malice. Hurst's stepfather said he and his wife were relieved by the decision. They will spend their lives in federal prison--instead of being put to death convicted of murdering 12 people, which included a family of six killed in a brutal firebombing.
Chadrick Evan Fulks was sentenced to death after he was convicted of carjacking, kidnapping, raping, and murdering Alice Donovan in 2002. Donovan was murdered after Fulks broke out of jail on pending child abuse charges.
Anthony George Battle murdered a correction officer while in prison for the murder of his wife. Battle was serving a life sentence for the 1987 sexual assault and murder of his wife, Minnie Foreman, a United States Marine stationed at Camp Lejune.
Alejandro Enrique Ramirez Umana, aka "Wizard," is an MS-13 gang member. He was sentenced to death. He just had his death sentence commuted. Witnesses testified that on Dec. 8, 2007, while in Las Jarochitas, a family-run restaurant in Greensboro, N.C., Umana shot Ruben Garcia Salinas fatally in the chest and Manuel Garcia Salinas in the head. Witnesses testified that the shootings took place after the Garcia Salinas brothers had "disrespected" Umana’s gang signs by calling them "fake." Firing three more shots in the restaurant, according to trial testimony, Umana injured another individual with his gunfire. Umana was a veteran member of MS-13 who illegally came to Charlotte to assist in reorganizing the Charlotte MS-13 cell. He was the first MS-13 member in the United States to receive the federal death penalty.
Marvin Charles Gabrion is a suspected serial killer who was convicted of rape and murder. One of his victims disappeared two days before she was set to testify against him in a rape case. Her body was recovered in a lake with cinder blocks weighing it down.
Jurijus Kadamovas and Iouri Gherman Mikhel are serial killers who were sitting on death row for kidnapping and murdering five people.
Brandon Basham was convicted of kidnapping, raping, and murdering 44-year-old Alice Donovan in Conway, South Carolina and 19-year-old Samantha Burns in West Virginia in November 2002.
Meier Jason Brown just also had his sentence commuted after he admitted to murdering US postal worker in Liberty County, GA in 2002.
Carlos David Caro murdered his cellmate. While in prison, he became the leader of a prison gang known as Texas Syndicate. Caro and fellow Texas Syndicate members violently attacked the new arrivals. Taking responsibility, Caro commented: “I don't give a f*ck if they send me to the United States Penitentiary. My brothers follow orders. They know what they're getting into. It doesn't even matter if we're prosecuted. I have 30 years to do. I certainly don't care about myself.” In August 2003, Caro and another inmate violently attacked fellow Texas Syndicate member Ricardo Benavidez. Using “shanks,” i.e., homemade knives, they stabbed Benavidez twenty-nine times. Sandoval's murder occurred only weeks later. Sandoval was placed in Caro's cell at around 9:00 p.m. on December 16, 2003. Soon after, inmate Sean Bullock, whose cell faced Caro's, noticed Caro standing behind Sandoval and apparently choking him to death.
Jorge Avila-Torrez raped and stabbed to death two girls — Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9. The girls were riding their bicycles in their neighborhood in a suburb north of Chicago in 2005. Four years later, he strangled naval officer Amanda Snell, 20.
Wesley Coonce murdered another inmate while serving time in Missouri for kidnapping and carjacking. Surveillance video of the murder showed Coonce leaving Rodriguez's cell and making “a throat slashing sign to another inmate.” Coonce later told the facilities staff he did it because Castro-Rodriguez “was a f*cking snitch.”
Brandon Michael Council was convicted of bank robbery resulting in death in 2019 for the killings of Katie Skeen and Donna Major, who both worked at a CresCom Bank in Conway. He was also found guilty of the use of a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime in a manner that constitutes murder.
Christopher Cramer was sentenced to death for the prison murder of Leo Johns.
Former New Orleans police officer Len Davis was sentenced to death for ordering the murder of a woman who had filed a brutality complaint against him.
Joseph Ebron was sentenced to death for the murder of a fellow inmate, Keith Barnes, an inmate from Washington D.C. who arrived at the United States Penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas. Barnes told the case manager he had testified against his codefendants in two 1998 murder trials in Washington D.C., and was concerned about his safety because other inmates from the D.C. area might have been aware of his cooperation. Despite this voiced concern, Barnes was placed in the prison's general population. The following day, Barnes was found dead on the top bunk of the bed in his cell. Barnes's autopsy revealed that he died of multiple stab wounds. He was stabbed 106 times.
Edward Leon Fields was sentenced to death on the two murder convictions and given substantial prison terms on the remaining charges in connection with a double murder that occurred in the Oklahoma National Forest.
Edgar Baltazar Garcia and Mark Issac Snarr were convicted of murdering Gabriel Rhone. Garcia and Snarr stabbed a prison guard in the back while the guard was trying to protect another inmate from being killed. Garcia stabbed another guard while another inmate stole the guard’s keys. Garcia unlocked the doors of another inmate’s cell and fatally stabbed him.
Thomas Morocco Hager convicted of killing Barbara White while engaged in a conspiracy to traffic drugs.
Charles Michael Hall murdered an inmate while serving a a 194-month sentence from the District of Maine for making threats against a federal judge and a federal prosecutor. Norris G. Holder was convicted of killing a security guard during an armed robbery of the Lindell Bank & Trust in St. Louis (Forest Park), Missouri.
Richard Allen Jackson was sentenced to death after kidnapping, raping, and murdering Karen Styles. Jackson’s victim’s nude body was discovered by a hunter. She was duct-taped to a tree and one spent Remington .22 caliber rifle casing. An autopsy revealed that Styles died from a single bullet wound to the head. She also had suffered ten stun-gun wounds to her body, nine of them inflicted within six inches of her pubic area. Jackson confessed fully.
David Runyon in 2007 shot and killed Cory Allen Voss pursuant to a murder-for-hire conspiracy that he entered into with Voss's wife and her paramour. A jury convicted Runyon on multiple charges involving murder, and, on the jury's recommendation, the district court sentenced Runyon to death.
Ronald Mikos was sentenced to death after he murdered 54-year old Joyce Brannon, RN. Brannon was set to testify against him before a Federal Grand Jury. Mikos was being accused of defrauding Medicare out of $1.2 Million by billing the Health and Human Services program from surgeries he never performed. Mikos was found to have shot Joyce Brannon six times in the head and back, the final shot into the neck was at point-blank range.
James Roane and Richard Tipton were convicted of several capital murders, arising out of drug trafficking operations in and near Richmond in 1993.
Julius Robinson senselessly murdered two people and was involved in drug trafficking.
Ricardo Sanchez, Jr. and Daniel "Homer" Troya were sentenced to death after being convicted of carjacking resulting in death and other felonies for their roles in the 2006 deaths of Jose “Lou” Escobedo, his wife Yessica, and their two young sons aged 4 and 3. Their bodies were found riddled with bullets off the side of Florida's Turnpike in Port St. Lucie.
Rejon Taylor appeals his convictions and death sentence for carjacking resulting in death, kidnapping resulting in death, and using a firearm to commit murder while committing carjacking and kidnapping.
