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John Linley Frazier was born on January 26, 1946, to Patricia Irene (née Adams) and William B. Frazier.[citation needed]After his mother remarried, to Santa Cruz resident Pierre Pascal, Frazier attended elementary and middle school in Capitola, followed by Santa Cruz High School, where he dropped out in 1961 as a freshman.
Pocahontas's birth year is unknown, but some historians estimate it to have been around 1596. [1] In A True Relation of Virginia (1608), the English explorer John Smith described meeting Pocahontas in the spring of 1608 when she was "a child of ten years old". [6]
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.
On the day of his execution, December 2, [207] Brown read his Bible and wrote a final letter to his wife, which included the will he had written the previous day, [208] [206] [209] as large meetings were held in many cities in the Northeast. In many of the cases, "Negroes were the chief actors in creating excitement".
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore PC (1730 – 25 February 1809) was a Scottish peer, military officer, and colonial administrator in the Thirteen Colonies and The Bahamas.He was the last royal governor of Virginia. [1]
He was noted for being the winner of a 2002 lottery jackpot. His win of US$314.9 million in the Powerball multi-state lottery was, at the time, the largest jackpot ever won by a single winning ticket in the history of American lottery. After winning the lottery, he was proximate to a number of crimes, and experienced several personal tragedies. [2]
It was the seventh execution by the state of Mississippi since the Gregg v. Georgia decision and the 1004th overall in the United States. Prison officials described Nixon as being upbeat on the day of his execution, but his mood turned somber around 4 p.m. as the time of the execution neared. [6] While strapped to the gurney, Nixon said that:
Several weeks before his execution, James Briley married a writer who believed his claims of innocence, Evangeline Grant Redding, on March 28, 1985, in a prison ceremony attended by his father, James Sr. [13] [14] The brothers were executed in the electric chair at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond; Linwood on October 12, 1984, and J ...