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In 1987, Johnson was one of two death row inmates convicted in the 1985 beating death of fellow prisoner Laron Williams at the old Tennessee Penitentiary. Williams was on death row for the slayings of a Memphis policeman and a Roman Catholic priest.
6 cze 2023 · Johnson, the sixth person in the state to be executed since 1960, was pronounced dead after a lethal injection was given at 1 a.m. Wednesday morning. Johnson, then 24, was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Bobby Bell Jr., James Moore and Charles House.
3 gru 2009 · On Wednesday morning, December 2, Cecil Johnson was executed by the state of Tennessee after spending 28 years on Tennessee’s death row. Johnson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of Bobbie Bell, Jr., Charles House, and James Moore in the 1980 robbery of Bell’s Market in Nashville. As with so many other capital cases ...
1 gru 2009 · NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A man who spent 28 years on death row for killing three people while robbing a Nashville convenience store was executed early Wednesday after telling relatives.
2 gru 2009 · NASHVILLE, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- A man who spent nearly three decades on Tennessee's death row for a triple slaying at a Nashville market, was executed by lethal injection Wednesday. Cecil...
Tennessee: DR inmate Cecil Johnson Jr. says 29-year delay is cruel and unusual. The man scheduled to be executed in Nashville on Wednesday morning has asked for a stay of execution, saying to kill him by lethal injection after 29 years on death row is cruel and unusual punishment.
6 sie 2018 · Death penatly opponents hold a candle-light vigil outside the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution prior to the execution of Cecil Johnson in the early morning of Dec. 2, 2009. Alan Poizner...