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词条 Vernon Lee Evans
释义

  1. Conviction and sentencing

  2. Anti death penalty activism

  3. See also

  4. Sources

  5. References

Vernon Lee Evans is a contract killer convicted for murdering two witnesses scheduled to testify against the leader of a drug gang. In 1984, he was convicted and sentenced to death together with drug kingpin Anthony Grandison for the 1983 murders of Susan Kennedy and David Scott Piechowicz. David Piechowicz and his wife Cheryl (Susan Kennedy's sister) had been scheduled to testify against Grandison at trial on federal drug charges.[1]

The case was intensely discussed in the political debate about eliminating the death penalty in Maryland.[2]

Conviction and sentencing

Evans' death sentence was overturned on appeal in 1991. The following year, a new jury again sentenced him to die.[3] In 1994, the new sentence was upheld on direct appeal to the Maryland Court of Appeals, and in 1997 a petition for post-conviction relief was denied. The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland denied Evans' federal habeas corpus petition in 1999, and in 2000 that decision was upheld by the Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Since then, Evans has filed motions for a new trial and to correct an illegal sentence. Those, however, have been denied as well. He was scheduled for execution in February 2006, but his execution was suspended. All executions in Maryland are currently on hold until the state drafts and approves new execution procedures.

The status of Evens' death sentence became unclear along with that of four other convicted murderers when the Maryland House of Delegates voted in 2013 to abolish the death penalty.[4] On December 31, 2014, Evans' death sentence was one of four commuted to life without parole by outgoing governor Martin O'Malley[5][6][7]

Anti death penalty activism

Concern that anti death penalty activists would protest Evans execution violently, Maryland State Police carried out undercover surveillance of anti death penalty activists for fourteen months. The operation was ended when it came to light; Governor Martin O'Malley called it an "infring(ment) on citizens' rights to free speech or public assembly."[8][9]

While on death row, anti death penalty activists enabled Evans to write an advice blog designed, according to the Chicago Tribune as "the leading edge of a strategy by death penalty opponents to use new technologies" by making the public see criminals sentenced to death as "human beings with lives beyond the crimes they are accused of."[10][11][12][13][14] In his blog, Evans claimed not to have committed the murder.[10]

See also

  • Capital punishment in Maryland
  • List of United States death row inmates

Sources

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/02/1800526.php|title=DP Victory in Maryland - Vernon Evans Wins Stay of Execution!|publisher=The AP|date=|accessdate=2006-02-06}}
2. ^{{cite news|last1=Wagner|first1=John|title=5 inmates on death row are at issue|url=https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/1324365374/fulltext/FB02A45CACA847D7PQ/88?accountid=10226|accessdate=29 May 2018|publisher=Washington Post|date=8 April 2013}}
3. ^{{cite news|last1=Levine|first1=Susan|title=A Shorter Line on Death Row; Pr. George's Man May Be Months From Execution Date|url=https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/409627652/FB02A45CACA847D7PQ/84?accountid=10226|accessdate=29 May 2018|publisher=Washingotn Post|date=19 June 2004}}
4. ^{{cite news|title=End of death penalty leaves five in limbo|url=https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/1319797560/fulltext/FB02A45CACA847D7PQ/59?accountid=10226|accessdate=29 May 2018|publisher=The Guardian|date=22 March 2013}}
5. ^Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley Commutes Four Death Sentences
6. ^{{cite news |last1=Bradner |first1=Eric |title=O'Malley commutes Maryland's last four death sentences |url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/12/31/politics/omalley-commutes-marylands-last-four-death-sentences/index.html |accessdate=14 June 2018 |publisher=CNN |date=31 December 2014}}
7. ^{{cite news |last1=Blinder |first1=Alan |title=Life Sentences for Last Four Facing Death in Maryland |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/us/maryland-governor-omalley-commutes-death-sentences-emptying-death-row.html |accessdate=14 June 2018 |publisher=New York Times |date=31 December 2014}}
8. ^{{cite news|last1=Rein|first1=Lisa|title=Anticipated Death Penalty Protests Prompted Spying; Md. Police Chief Says Surveillance Showed Poor Judgment|url=https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/410227954/FB02A45CACA847D7PQ/39?accountid=10226|accessdate=29 May 2018|publisher=Washington Post|date=26 July 2008}}
9. ^{{cite news|last1=Dechter|first1=Gadi|title=SURVEILLANCE WAS 'MISGUIDED': STATE POLICE SUPERINTENDENT TO ADOPT ALL RECOMMENDATIONS IN 93-PAGE REPORT|url=https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/406212753/fulltext/FB02A45CACA847D7PQ/108?accountid=10226|accessdate=29 May 2018|publisher=Baltimore Sun|date=2 October 2008}}
10. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Rich|first1=Eric|title=Via blog, man on Death Row gives advice|url=https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/420420620/FB02A45CACA847D7PQ/12?accountid=10226|accessdate=29 May 2018|publisher=Chicago Tribune|date=29 January 2006}}
11. ^{{cite news|last1=McMenamin|first1=Jennifer|title=Answers sent from death row ; Evans' blog gives a glimpse of his life|url=https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/406673143/821877B5049E45FCPQ/1?accountid=10226|accessdate=29 May 2018|publisher=Baltimore Sun|date=27 January 2006}}
12. ^{{cite news|last1=Borger|first1=Julian|title=Death row blogger describes last days of condemned man|url=https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/246395804/821877B5049E45FCPQ/3?accountid=10226|accessdate=29 May 2018|publisher=The Guardian|date=28 January 2006}}
13. ^{{cite news|title=Deathrow inmate blogs in last days|url=https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/467783295/fulltext/FB02A45CACA847D7PQ/62?accountid=10226|accessdate=29 May 2018|publisher=UPI|date=27 January 2006}}
14. ^{{cite book|last1=Johnson|first1=Andre|title=Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality|date=2013|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=0739168304|page=98}}

References

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100113033324/http://www.santegidio.org/it/pdm/index.htm Article from ANSA press agency "Rinviata l'esecuzione di Vernon Lee Evans"]
  • http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.crimebriefs271aug27,0,6841296.story
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