Gregg Braun was sentenced to die for the 1989 murder of Gwendolyn Sue Miller, 31, in an $80 flower shop robbery in Ardmore, Oklahoma. A customer was shot in the head and robbed of $600 and the bookkeeper was also shot. He also murdered four other people in a multi-state crime spree. Each of the…
After jury quickly convicts him of murdering DeVargas teacher, ‘Bozo’ Lopez viciously insults his victim By Steve Terrell The New Mexican Arthur “Bozo” Lopez stabbed teacher Noah Rodriguez more than 50 times in October 1996. And on Wednesday, just after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder, Lopez took another stab at Rodriguez. “I’m not…
by Ollie Reed Jr. Tribune Reporter SOCORRO — Retitling the Torreon cabin killings case “Popcorn’s last Revenge,” defense attorney Stephen Aarons told a jury today that the shooter in the grisly deaths was not his client, Shaun Wilkins In his opening statement, Aarons said that instead, Shawn “Popcorn” Popeleski shot does two young adults in…
OUTGOING GOVERNOR IN NEW MEXICO BARS THE EXECUTION OF 5 By ROBERT REINHOLD, Special to the New York Times ¶ SANTA FE, N.M., Nov. 26— In a dramatic Thanksgiving Eve move to thwart his successor, Gov. Toney Anaya of New Mexico today commuted the death sentences of all five men awaiting execution in the state,…
