Abstract: On June 14, 1988, Edward Byrne, Jr., 28 years old, was executed in
Louisiana for murdering a woman during the robbery of a gasoline
station. This case was not especially notable, except for the people
involved. Byrne was the 100th person executed in the United States
since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1977, and
Louisiana is only one of 37 American states that now exercise capital
punishment. Nor were the facts of the case particularly dramatic. Byrne
had dated the woman he killed, planning to rob her because he knew
she handled large sums of money on her job. He insisted, though, that
he had not intended to murder her. When he carried out the robbery, he
maintained, he had only wanted to knock her unconscious with his
hammer.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-06-17
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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