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...next day Ducc was ready to fire on his own. When it got dark, Ducc and a few others headed on foot over railroad tracks and through alleys to the enemy neighborhood. This time Ducc was carrying a deuce-deuce, a .22-cal. pistol. The rival gang was waiting, armed and hidden, but Ducc spied two on the street who weren't even looking at him because, he says, "I'm so small." He fired and hit one of them. "I saw a lot of blood," he remembers. He froze, so shocked he was unable to move...
Prejean's guilt was never in dispute. Early on the morning of July 2, 1977, Louisiana state trooper Donald Cleveland stopped Prejean and his brother Joseph on a routine traffic violation. As Cleveland began to frisk the argumentative Joseph, Dalton crept behind the car, pulled out a pistol and fired two shots into the trooper's head. Prejean had also killed a taxi driver during an aborted robbery when he was 14. "I'm not bloodthirsty," insisted the officer's widow Candy Cleveland the morning before the execution. "But what kind of person am I supposed to be? I have...
...officer who'd had the job of sorting files. In every case, the first page of a file was retained. If a person had been executed, an affidavit that the death sentence had been carried out had to be included, along with the serial number of the pistol used...
While this was going on, Lusia's friend Natasha Gesse, who was looking after me while Lusia was gone, caught sight of the pistol and told the landlady, "Pretend you're taking out the garbage and go tell the policeman that drunks are in the apartment and that they've got a pistol...
...premeditated crimes, like killings that take place during a robbery. Even then, however, authorities consider extenuating circumstances. In Maryland last year on May 6, Vincent Kennedy shot and killed a Nigerian-born taxi driver, Lucky Unuigboje Okoruwa, 24. Later Kennedy confessed the attempted robbery but insisted that his pistol had gone off accidentally when it bumped against Okoruwa's headrest. His claim, supported by FBI experts who examined his weapon, saved him from life without parole. Kennedy, 21, pleaded guilty in exchange for life plus 20 years, allowing him to become eligible for parole when he is about 46 years...