Vernon Lee Evans Jr. should have been dead by now. A prosecutor did his best to ensure that when he convinced a Maryland jury that Evans was among the worst of the worst, a killer who deserved a punishment more severe than a life spent in prison. He deserved, the prosecutor argued and the jury agreed, to die at the hands of the state.
That was nearly 30 years ago.
In the years since, the motel where Evans gunned down two employees has been replaced by a Howard Johnson. The star witness in the case, a woman who lost her husband and a sister that day, has died. And Evans, who in his own words has “rebuilt” his character, remains on Maryland’s death row, kept alive in a politically forged purgatory.
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3 comments:
Can i throw the switch.
I remember the case like it was yesterday, having lived in Baltimore at the time. It was a contract killing to silence a witness and he killed the wrong sister. Tha bastard should have left the courtroom a guilty man and been put to death immediately, no remorse at all on societies part.
Do not not forget Jody Miles who, with his wife, murdered a man in Hebron. Miles lured the man there and killed him. Premeditated and with out any feeling of guilt till he was caught.
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