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Willie Simmons (inmate) Willie Junior Simmons is an Alabama resident sentenced to life without parole for first-degree robbery in 1982 for wrestling a man to the ground to steal his wallet, which contained $9. Simmons, who had three prior nonviolent convictions, was prosecuted as a habitual offender under Alabama's Habitual Felony Offender Act ...
An Alabama man who was serving a life sentence for stealing $50 will be released in the next few days — after spending 36 years behind bars. Alvin Kennard was 22 years in 1983 when a judge ...
Jimmy Wilson (robber) James E. "Jimmy" Wilson (born 1903), [ 1] was an American farmhand who was convicted of violent robbery by an Alabama court in 1958 and sentenced to death. [ 2] His case became a cause célèbre due to the small amount stolen ($1.95) and that Wilson, as an African-American, was convicted by an all-white jury .
Sentenced to life without parole for the murder of a teacher in 1937, when he was 16, along with a 17-year-old accomplice who hanged himself in prison in 1943. His sentence was commuted to 200 years in the mid-1970s. Died in 2003, aged 82. [152] José Javier Zabaleta Elosegi 1988 200 years Spain: Perpetrator of the 1980 Zarautz attack.
Panama. Date apprehended. July 26, 2010 [ 3] William Dathan Holbert (born September 12, 1979), alias William Adolfo Cortez and nicknamed "Wild Bill", is an American serial killer. Originally from North Carolina, he is currently serving a 47-year sentence for the killings of five Americans in Panama.
A Kansas man was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday after he stole a Jackie Robinson statue from a youth baseball field earlier this year, according to ESPN’s Anthony Oliveri. Ricky ...
He was sentenced to 18 months and ordered to pay $41,500 restitution for stealing the statue. He got the most time for an aggravated burglary that happened Feb. 1 that carried a sentence of 13.5 ...
Lionel Alexander Tate (born January 30, 1987) [ 1] is the youngest American citizen ever sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, though this sentence was eventually overturned. [ 2] In January 2001, when Tate was 13, he was convicted of first-degree murder for the 1999 battering death of six-year-old Tiffany Eunick in ...