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Andrew Six
Andrew Wessel Six (May 14, 1965 – August 20, 1997) was a convicted child murderer and serial killer. On April 10, 1987, Six and his uncle Donald Petary were involved in the murder of 12-year-old Kathy Allen, who was kidnapped in Iowa before she was found dead in Missouri. Six and Petary were both found guilty of state murder charges and sentenced to death in Missouri, and additionally received 200-year prison sentences for federal kidnapping charges. Petary died on death row in 1998 before he could be executed, while Six was put to death by lethal injection on August 20, 1997. More than a decade later, in 2014, DNA testing posthumously identified Six as the real perpetrator behind a 1984 triple homicide in Iowa, where three members of a family were allegedly killed on April 12, 1984, by Six, who was named as the prime suspect in the case but did not face trial due to lack of evidence. Early life Andrew Wessel Six was born in Pershing, Iowa, on May 14, 1965. His early life was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa
Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east and southeast, Missouri to the south, Nebraska to the west, South Dakota to the northwest, and Minnesota to the north. Iowa is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 26th largest in total area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 31st most populous of the List of states and territories of the United States, 50 U.S. states, with a population of 3.19 million. The state's List of capitals in the United States, capital, List of cities in Iowa, most populous city, and largest List of metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area fully located within the state is Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines. A portion of the larger Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area, Omaha, Nebraska, metropolitan area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schuyler County, Missouri
Schuyler County is a County (United States), county located in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 4,032, making it the fourth-least populous county in Missouri. Its county seat is Lancaster, Missouri, Lancaster. The county was organized February 14, 1845, from Adair County, Missouri, Adair County, and named for General Philip Schuyler, delegate to the Continental Congress and U.S. Senator from New York (state), New York. Schuyler County is part of the Kirksville, Missouri, Kirksville, MO Kirksville micropolitan area, Micropolitan Statistical Area. , a World War II-era cargo ship, was named in part for Schuyler County, Missouri. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.3%) is water. It is the second-smallest county in Missouri by area. Schuyler County borders Iowa to the north. Adjacent counties *Appanoose County, Iowa (nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Punishment In Virginia
Capital punishment was abolished in Virginia on March 24, 2021, when Governor Ralph Northam signed a bill into law. The law took effect on July 1, 2021. Virginia is the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, and the first southern state in United States history to do so. The first execution in what would become the United States was carried out in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1608, when Captain George Kendall was executed in Jamestown for spying. Since then, Virginia has executed more than 1,300 people, the most of any other state. In the modern, post-''Gregg'' era, Virginia conducted 113 executions, the third most in the country, behind only Texas and Oklahoma. The last execution in the state was on July 6, 2017, when William Morva was executed via lethal injection for murder. Early history The first recorded execution in the United States took place in 1608 at the Jamestown Colony in Virginia. Captain George Kendall was executed for treason. Hanging was the predominant m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Carnahan
Melvin Eugene Carnahan (February 11, 1934 – October 16, 2000) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 51st governor of Missouri from 1993 until his death in 2000. Carnahan was a Democrat and held various positions in government. Born in rural Missouri, Carnahan was the son of Representative A. S. J. Carnahan and attended campaign events with his father. He moved to Washington, D.C., with his father and attended high school and college there. After a stint in the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Carnahan returned to Missouri, graduating from the University of Missouri in 1959. Shortly after, he moved to Rolla with an eye on entering politics. First elected as a municipal judge in 1960, Carnahan was elected as a state representative for Phelps County in 1962, where he became majority leader during his second term. After being defeated in a race for state senate in 1966, Carnahan practiced law in Rolla. He returned to politics in 1980, being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Court Of The United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all Federal tribunals in the United States, U.S. federal court cases, and over State court (United States), state court cases that turn on questions of Constitution of the United States, U.S. constitutional or Law of the United States, federal law. It also has Original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States, original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." In 1803, the Court asserted itself the power of Judicial review in the United States, judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution via the landmark case ''Marbury v. Madison''. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Feguer
Victor Harry Feguer (June 10, 1935 – March 15, 1963) was an American convicted murderer who was known as the last federal inmate executed in the United States before the moratorium on the death penalty following '' Furman v. Georgia'', as well as the last person put to death in the state of Iowa. While the media did not pay much attention to Feguer or his execution at the time, Timothy McVeigh's execution nearly 4 decades later sparked renewed media interest in him. Background Feguer was a drifter, native to the state of Michigan. In the summer of 1960, Feguer arrived in Dubuque, Iowa, renting a room at a decrepit boarding house. Soon after arriving, Feguer began phoning physicians alphabetically from the local Yellow Pages and found Dr. Edward Bartels. Feguer claimed that a woman needed medical attention. When Dr. Bartels arrived, Feguer kidnapped and killed him in Illinois. Bartels' body was found in a cornfield there with a single gunshot to the head. A few days lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Punishment In Iowa
Capital punishment has been abolished in Iowa since 1965. Forty-five men were executed by hanging in Iowa between 1834 and 1963 for crimes including murder, rape, and robbery. The first time that Iowa abolished the death penalty was in 1872, as a result of anti-death sentiment in the state, much due to Quaker, Unitarian and Universalist religious sentiment. By contrast, Presbyterians and Congregationalists advocated the retention of capital punishment, on biblical grounds. Anti-death penalty sentiment had been present in Iowa from its beginnings – first territorial Governor of Iowa Territory, Robert Lucas, at his first message to the Iowa Territorial Assembly in November 1838, advocated that capital punishment should be abolished. However, despite his advocacy, the Assembly passed legislation providing the death penalty for murder, to replace the existing legislation inherited from the Territory of Michigan providing for the same. In 1846, the Chief Justice of the Iowa Territo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Continuing Criminal Enterprise Statute
The Continuing Criminal Enterprise Statute (commonly referred to as CCE Statute or Kingpin Statute) is a United States federal law that targets large-scale drug traffickers who are responsible for long-term and elaborate drug conspiracies. Unlike the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO Act, which covers a wide range of organized crime enterprises, the CCE statute covers only major narcotics organizations. CCE is codified as Chapter 13 of Title 21 of the United States Code, . The statute makes it a federal crime to commit or conspire to commit a continuing series of felony violations of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 when such acts are taken in concert with five or more other persons. For conviction under the statute, the offender must have been an organizer, manager, or supervisor of the continuing operation and have obtained substantial income or resources from the drug violations. The sentence for a first CCE conviction is a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Punishment By The United States Federal Government
Capital punishment is a legal punishment under the criminal justice system of the United States federal government. It is the most serious punishment that could be imposed under federal law. The serious crimes that warrant this punishment include treason, espionage, murder, large-scale drug trafficking, or attempted murder of a witness, juror, or court officer in certain cases. The federal government imposes and carries out a small minority of the death sentences in the U.S., with the vast majority being applied by state governments. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) manages the housing and execution of federal death row prisoners. In practice, the federal government rarely carries out executions. As a result of the Supreme Court opinion in ''Furman v. Georgia'' in 1972, the federal death penalty was suspended from law until its reinstatement by Congress in 1988. No federal executions occurred between 1972 and 2001. From 2001 to 2003, three people were executed by the feder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Duane Vietor
Harold Duane Vietor (December 29, 1931 – July 23, 2016) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Education and career Born in Parkersburg, Iowa in 1931, Vietor was in the United States Navy from 1952 to 1954. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1955, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1958. He served as a law clerk for Judge Martin Donald Van Oosterhout of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, from 1958 to 1959. He was in private practice in Cedar Rapids, Iowa from 1959 to 1965. In 1965 he was appointed as a judge of the Iowa District Court in Cedar Rapids, where he served until 1979, the last nine years as chief judge of his district. Federal judicial service Vietor was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on March 15, 1979, to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, to a new seat authorized by 92 Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles R
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ǵerh₂-">ĝer-, where the ĝ is a palatal consonant, meaning "to rub; to be old; grain." An old man has been worn away and is now grey with age. In some Slavic languages, the name ''Drago (given name), Drago'' (and variants: ''Dragom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States District Court For The Southern District Of Iowa
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa (in case citations, S.D. Iowa) has jurisdiction over forty-seven of Iowa's ninety-nine counties. It is subject to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit). The United States District Court for the District of Iowa, established on March 3, 1845, by 5 Stat. 789,Asbury Dickens, ''A Synoptical Index to the Laws and Treaties of the United States of America'' (1852), p. 394.U.S. District Courts of Iowa, Legislative history '' Federal Judicial Center''. was subdivided into the current [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
