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Abraham Shakespeare. Abraham Lee Shakespeare (April 24, 1966 – c. April 7, 2009) was a casual laborer from the US who won a $30 million lottery jackpot in Florida, receiving $17 million in 2006. In 2009, his family declared him missing, and in January 2010 his body was found buried under a concrete slab in the backyard of an acquaintance.
John Gordon (convict) John Gordon (c. 1815 – February 13, 1845) was the last person executed by Rhode Island. His conviction and execution have been ascribed by researchers to anti- Roman Catholic and anti- Irish immigrant bias. [1] As a result, he was posthumously pardoned in 2011.
John Arthur Spenkelink (March 29, 1949 – May 25, 1979) was an American convicted murderer. He was executed in 1979, the first convicted criminal to be executed in Florida after capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, and the second (after Gary Gilmore ) in the United States.
John Richard Lott Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He is the former president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a nonprofit he founded in 2013.
Span of crimes. 1977–1992. Country. United States. State (s) Oregon. John Arthur Ackroyd (October 3, 1949 – December 30, 2016) was an American murderer and suspected serial killer. In 1992, he was sentenced to five life terms in prison for the abduction and murder of Kaye Turner.
Murder with malice (2 counts, murdered before trial) On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife, Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie ...
7 (with Thorndike) 7 (with Bassett) Conviction (s) Witchcraft (posthumously overturned) John Proctor (October 9, 1632 – August 19, 1692) was a landowner in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He and his wife Elizabeth were tried and convicted of witchcraft as part of the Salem Witch Trials, whereupon he was hanged.
John Albert Gardner III (born April 9, 1979) is an American convicted double murderer, rapist, and child molester. He confessed to the February 2009 rape and murder of 14-year-old Amber Dubois from Escondido, California, and the February 2010 rape and murder of 17-year-old Chelsea King from Poway, California after he entered a plea agreement that spared him from execution.