Tag: mandatory death penalty

• On This Day in 1957 – Robert Eugene ‘Bobby’ Carter, last man executed in Washington D.C.

  

      It’s quite unlikely that many people, even DC residents, remember cop-killer Robert Carter. Arrested for murdering police officer George Cassels on 11 July 1953, Carter was never likely to win clemency from the courts or from the President who had sole pardoning authority within the District of Columbia. On 27 April 1957 Carter…

  CrimeScribe

  April 26, 2020

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