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 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Amanda Lee Myers
Alabama executed death row inmate James Osgood on Thursday for the brutal rape and murder of his girlfriend's cousin in what one prosecutor called a "twisted fantasy" carried out by the couple. Alabama executed the 55-year-old by lethal injection, making him the second inmate put to death in the state this year and the 14th in the nation. He was pronounced dead at 6:35 p.m. CT.
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3 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Amanda Lee Myers
• James Osgood and his girlfriend, Tonya Vandyke, were convicted of the 2010 murder of Vandyke's cousin, Tracy Brown, after attacking and raping her. • Osgood has long admitted to the murder, agrees that he deserves the death penalty and has stopped all appeals. • Brown's family plans to attend the execution and says that while they've forgiven Osgood, he does deserve to die.
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1 month ago |
usatoday.com | Amanda Lee Myers
• Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 killing of 56-year-old Capt. James Myers, an off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety officer and beloved father• Mahdi was to sit restrained in a metal chair with a hood over his head while three volunteer corrections staff shot a target over his heart. • Five states − South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method but Mahdi's is only the fifth such execution since 1977.
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1 month ago |
usatoday.com | Amanda Lee Myers
Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 killing of 56-year-old Capt. James Myers, an off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety officer and beloved fatherMahdi will sit restrained in a metal chair and a hood will be over his head when three volunteer corrections staff shoot a target over his heart. Five states − South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method but Mahdi's will only be the fifth such execution since 1977.
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2 months ago |
usatoday.com | Amanda Lee Myers
The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being the so-called Desert Killer and reiterated his innocence in a recent hourlong interview with USA TODAY. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued the stay "until further order of this court" without explanation. The order came just over 48 hours before Wood, 67, was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.
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RT @RDunhamDP: Mikal Mahdi executed by firing squad in South Carolina for off-duty officer's brutal murder. https://t.co/MNBDoPvFPw @USATOD…
RT @USATODAY: Florida execution to be nation's 2nd today, 4th this week. What to know about the case. https://t.co/qw9X1IGyOx
RT @LesterDuhe: Incredible article by @AmandaLeeUSAT. Putting the victim FIRST. Tomorrow Molly Elliot will finally get justice.