Eddie James
Eddie James | |
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| Ada | Edward Thomas James Ogos 4, 1961 Bristol, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Haribulan pemarai | Mac 20, 2025 (umur 63) |
| Criminal status | Executed by lethal injection |
| Conviction(s) | First-degree murder (x2) Aggravated child abuse Attempted sexual battery Sexual battery of a minor under the age of 12 (x2) Kidnapping Grand theft Grand theft auto |
| Criminal penalty | Death (x2) Life imprisonment (x3) |
| Details | |
| Victims | 2 |
| Date | September 20, 1993 |
| Country | United States |
| State(s) | Florida |
| Weapons | Strangulation Knife Candlestick |
Date apprehended | October 6, 1993 |
Edward Thomas James (4 Ogos 1961 – 20 Mac 2025) nya siku pemunuh enggau pesalah seks Amerika. Iya dipandangka ba randau televisyen nasional America’s Most Wanted ngujungka iya ditangkap lalu diukum ketegal udah munuh siku nembiak indu beumur 8 taun enggau ini iya ba Casselberry, Florida dalam bulan September 1993. Iya udah diukum mati ba taun 1995. Iya diukum mati lalu iya udah nganti ukum mati iya semak 30 taun. Iya dibunuh ngena chara jik pemati kena 20 Mac 2025.[1]
Latar belakang
[edit | edit bunsu]James ada ba Bristol, Pennsylvania kena 4 Ogos 1961.[2][3] Iya pechaya nama kepenudi iya nya Matlack nyentukka umur iya 10 taun, lebuh iya nemu lelaki ke nupi iya nya apai tiri iya. Maya umur 11 taun, James betemu lalu diau enggau apai kandung iya, ke ngasuh iya ngelala dadah. Tang ironi iya, apai iya siku kaunselor dadah.[4] Maya umur iya tengan 15 taun, James diau baru enggau indai iya lalu pindah ngagai Casselberry di Seminole County, Florida. Pengidup iya bepelasarka pengawa belaya enggau dadah, lalu iya madahka diri bisi penanggul. Indai iya kala minta bantu ari kaunselor pengerai runding; taja pia, ulah kasar enggau pengeringat iya majak nyadi.[5]
James badu besekula ba taun keterubah iya lalu nyereta Soldadu Amerika Serikat lebuh umur iya 17 taun. Iya diau ba Jereman tang enda lama udah nya dibuai ketegal "enda nitihka atur."[6] James udah pulai ke Casselberry, dia iya bepangan enggau siku lelaki ke benama Tim Dick. James disambut dalam ruang bilik Dick, lalu, ba musin angat taun 1993, iya nyuwa bilik ari indai Dick, Betty.[7][8]
Pengawa munuh
[edit | edit bunsu]Kena 20 September 1993, James pulai ke rumah ari pengerami lalu tetemuka empat iku uchu Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Dick tinduk ba bilik besai.[9] Iya megai rekung Toni Marie Neuner ke beumur 8 taun lalu nyekak iya nyentukka iya luput. Iya lalu mai indu nya ngagai bilik tinduk iya lalu, ketegal ti pechaya indu nya udah mati, iya masung indu nya, udah nya iya ngengkahka indu nya entara katil iya enggau dinding. Iya udah nya parai ketegal dichekak maya nya.[10][11]
James lalu mansang ngagai bilik tinduk Betty Dick, ke alai iya malu pala Betty Dick ngena utai pemegai dian lalu berulang kali nuchuk Betty Dick ngena duku. Betty Dick nyerauh, ngerak menyadi indu Toni, Wendi ke beumur 9 taun, ke datai ba bilik tinduk.[12] James lalu ngikat Wendi lalu diengkah iya ba bilik mandi.[13] Iya lalu ngambi duku dagin ari dapur, pulai ke bilik tinduk, lalu nusuk Betty ba belakang. Sepengudah mandi sereta ngambi barang kemas ari bilik tinduk iya, James lalu lari ngena entukar iya.
Pengawa nangkap enggau meri ukum
[edit | edit bunsu]Kena 28 September 1993, America’s Most Wanted (AMW) mantaika tabur penerang bekaul enggau kes nya, lalu ngujungka beratus iku orang ke meda betelefon. Beberapa iti lalau nunjukka iya benung bejalai ke barat. Kena 5 Oktober 1993, program tu mantaika versyen ke baru enggau penerang baru ke ditambah ari lalau pengudah ditaburka sebedau tu. Hari siti nya, siku orang ke meda program tu tadi tepedaka James ba opis penganggul gawa negeri California ba Bakersfield lalu nguntik piak bekuasa. Sekali ditan polis, iya meri dua iti penerang ti udah dirikod.[14]
Kena 5 April 1995, James ngaku besalah ba dua iti dawa munuh ba tikas keterubah, enggau siti dawa tiap-tiap iti dawa nya minas anak mit enggau chara ti balat, nguji masung, nabanka orang, pengawa enchuri perengka pengangkut, enggau pengawa enchuri perengka pengangkut ke besai. Iya mega minta enda bepekit ngagai dua iti dawa masung modal ti didawa nengah penerang kediri.[15]
Kena 18 Ogos 1995, James udah diukum mati ketegal udah munuh Toni Neuner enggau Betty Dick, sereta mega ukum berengkah ari 15 taun nyentuk seumur idup ketegal dawa bukai.[16] Iya dijil ba Rumah Jil Negeri Florida [17] di Raiford, Florida.
Ukum mati
[edit | edit bunsu]Berindik ari pengawa munuh Jessie Hoffman Jr. kena 18 Mac 2025, James siku ari empat iku orang jil ke diperambu deka dibunuh dalam kandang tiga hari, ari 18 Mac ngagai 20 Mac 2025. Dua iku agi iya nya Aaron Gunches ari Arizona (diukum mati kena 19 Mac 2025), enggau Wendell Grissom ari Oklahoma (diukum mati kena 20 Mac 2025).[18] James diukum mati kena 20 Mac enda lama pengudah 8 pm, enggau pengawa ukum mati iya nyadi kira-kira semilan jam sepengudah pengawa ukum mati Grissom; iya dipadahka udah mati pukul 8:15 pm pengudah nerima tiga jik dadah ti tau munuh. Bisi pengelaun dua jam entara maya pengawa munuh James diperambu deka nyadi enggau maya pengujung iya dipejalaika, taja pan orang pemesai Florida enda nerangka kebuah pengelaun nya.[19]
Penyanding
[edit | edit bunsu]- ↑ Myers, Amanda Lee (2025-03-20). "Florida executes Edward Thomas James in 2nd execution of the day in the US, 4th this week". USA Today (in Inggeris AS). Archived from the original on 2025-03-22. Retrieved 2025-03-21.
- ↑ Walsh, p. 4
- ↑ "Inmate Population Information Detail - Edward T. James". Florida Department of Corrections. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
- ↑ Walsh, pp. 4-5 "And here's the sick irony: Eddie's dad was a drug counselor. 'Eddie remembered that he made a joke out of how he was a drug counselor, and he did more drugs than the people he was counseling."
- ↑ Walsh, pp. 5-6
- ↑ Walsh, p. 6
- ↑ Walsh, p. 7
- ↑ Edward James vs. State of Florida, p. 3
- ↑ Edward James vs. State of Florida, pp. 4-5
- ↑ Walsh
- ↑ Edward James vs. State of Florida, p. 5
- ↑ Brooks, Mary (October 7, 1993). "'Most Wanted' Eddie James Jailed In California". tribunedigital-orlandosentinel (in Inggeris). Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
- ↑ Edward James vs. State of Florida, p. 5 "Appellant turned around and saw Wendi, at which point he grabbed her, tied her up, and placed her in the bathroom. Wendi asked Appellant if he was going to hurt her brothers, and Appellant told her, 'NO, I'm not going to hurt your brother, or I'm not going to hurt you. You've been through enough pain.'"
- ↑ Edward James vs. State of Florida, p. 6
- ↑ Edward James vs. State of Florida, p. 1
- ↑ Edward James vs. State of Florida, p. 2
- ↑ Inmate Detail | Edward T. James
- ↑ "US to execute four Death Row inmates this week". France 24. March 18, 2025.
- ↑ "Florida man executed for killing eight-year-old girl and her grandmother". The Guardian. 2025-03-20. Archived from the original on 2025-03-22. Retrieved 2025-03-22.