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Gerald Powers was sentenced to death by the State of Tennessee for a robbery murder. According to court documents the victim, Shannon Sanderson, was arriving home after winning big at a casino when she was ambushed by Gerald Powers and murdered.
A Shelby County jury convicted the defendant, Gerald Powers, of first degree felony murder and aggravated robbery. He was sentenced to death for the felony murder charge and to a consecutive thirty-year prison sentence for the aggravated robbery charge.
8 sie 2023 · Gerald Powers was sentenced to death by the State of Tennessee for the murder of Shannon Sanderson. According to court documents Shannon Sanderson won big at the casino and headed home. Gerald Powers would ambush her, rob her and murder her for her winnings. Gerald Powers would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
23 mar 2014 · Gerald Powers was convicted of killing Shannon Sanderson, 25, the mother of three young children.
2 paź 2021 · The report described the perpetrator as a man wearing a red baseball cap and driving a maroon Beretta. After hearing the report, Powers packed a bag and left home in his wife’s car. Before leaving, he told his wife to tell anyone who asked that he was visiting his mother in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
6 sty 2003 · The death sentence Gerald Powers received for killing a Memphis woman in1996 was affirmed Monday in a 3-2 decision by the Tennessee Supreme Court, with justices divided over whether trial testimony by the defendant’s wife should have been allowed.
22 lut 2012 · The petitioner, Gerald Lee Powers, appeals the judgment of the Shelby County Criminal Court denying his petition for post-conviction relief. In 1998, he was convicted of first degree felony murder and aggravated robbery. His convictions and death sentence were affirmed on direct appeal by the Tennessee Supreme Court.
