Richard Beasley, the Ohio street-preacher who lured his murder victims with bogus Craigslist job offers, has been sentenced to the death penalty in Akron. Beasley was convicted on March 12 of killing three men and wounding a fourth, all of whom hegave false promises of farmhand jobs to in southeast Ohio in 2011.
Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler announced his team will seek the death penalty against James Holmes, accused of shooting 70 people, killing 12 during a midnight screening in Aurora Colorado.
Steven Ray Thacker, 42, who was convicted of committing three murders in a three-state killing spree in 1999, was executed at the Oklahoma State Prison in McAlester, Reuters reported.
Frederick Teesh, who fatally shot an adult bookstore security guard at the end of a multi state crime spree nearly 20 years ago, was pronounced dead after a single powerful dose of pentobarbital.
