Amanda Lee Myers
Universal reporter at USA Today
Reporter for @USATODAY. Formerly @AP. Love running, beaching, hiking, travel, Beyoncé and anything with an egg on it.
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2 days ago |
usatoday.com | Amanda Lee Myers
Mississippi has executed a Vietnam combat veteran for murdering a stay-at-home mother of two sons in a failed attempt to flee with ransom money. Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's oldest death row inmate at 79, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, June 25, and pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. local time. He became the 25th inmate executed in the United States this year, matching the number of executions during all of 2024.
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2 days ago |
usatoday.com | Amanda Lee Myers
Did Richard Jordan commit murder because of post-traumatic stress disorder from three combat tours in the Vietnam War? Or is he simply a cold-blooded killer? That question is at the heart of Jordan's arguments against his imminent execution in Mississippi on Wednesday, June 25 − six months shy of 50 years since he kidnapped and killed 36-year-old Edwina Marter, a stay-at-home mother of two sons.
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3 days ago |
usatoday.com | Amanda Lee Myers
Florida has executed death row inmate Thomas Lee Gudinas for the "monstrous" rape and murder of a former homecoming queen who was enjoying a night out on the town when she was attacked while walking to her car. Gudinas, 51, was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, June 24, for the murder of 27-year-old Michelle McGrath in Orlando on May 24, 1994. He became the 24th inmate executed in the U.S. this year and the seventh in Florida, more than any other state.
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3 days ago |
usatoday.com | Amanda Lee Myers
On one of her last days alive, Michelle McGrath was walking with her mom to get lunch in downtown Orlando when they passed by a homeless man on the sidewalk. "Hi, Michelle," he told the 27-year-old former homecoming queen, who was known to hand out blankets to those in need and let them bend her ear. She'd even invite some to dinner and share her phone number with others, three of McGrath's siblings and her sister-in-law recalled in an interview with USA TODAY.
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1 week ago |
usatoday.com | Amanda Lee Myers
From sparkling rubies, sapphires and emeralds, to diamond-encrusted necklaces and Rolex watches, the haul from what prosecutors say is the "largest jewelry heist in U.S. history" looks straight out of a shop window on Rodeo Drive. The stolen jewels include a ring with a sapphire stone the size of an almond, another ring of diamonds intricately woven between pools of amethyst, and a pair of dangling earrings made with six different gems.
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Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods. That's a remarkable change. Here's what's going on. https://t.co/hGlKOBjKh5
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