Joseph Martin Luther Gardner

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Joseph Martin Luther Gardner (born January 15, 1970 - December 5, 2008 in Columbia ) was an American murderer . It was for the murder of the 25-year-old Melissa Ann McLaughlan as 1136. man since the cancellation in 1976 restoring the death penalty in the United States in the US state of South Carolina with the lethal injection executed.

The fact

On December 31, 1992, Gardner, a member of the US Navy , and his two comrades Matthew Carl Mack and Matthew Williams vowed to rape and kill a white woman in revenge for 400 years of oppression of blacks by whites.

After Melissa McLaughlan had an argument with her fiancé in a bar, she left the nightclub and ran into the three young men. Gardner and his cronies took the woman in the car, then drove to his mobile home , where she was raped and tortured by the three men. She was then raped again by three other men who arrived there.

Gardner and his two cronies dragged the handcuffed woman who was blindfolded back into the car to take her to Charleston . During the journey, she managed to free herself from the shackles. When Gardner, who was in the passenger seat, noticed this, he shot her twice in the head. Before she was thrown out of the car and left on the side of the road, he shot her three more times in the head.

A year and a half later, on May 25, 1994, Gardner was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He was arrested in Philadelphia on October 19, 1994 and sentenced to death by jury on December 13, 1995. Matthew Mack and Matthew Williams were sentenced to life imprisonment.

execution

After Joseph Gardner refused the executioner's meal , he was executed by lethal injection on December 5, 2008 in the Broad River Correctional Institution . His death was recorded at 6:15 pm.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Martin Luther Gardner in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  2. ^ A b Joseph ML Gardner Execution Information as reported by the Office of the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney, Clark County, IN
  3. ↑ Federal Bureau of Investigation: Ten Most Wanted History Pictures (English). Accessed October 12, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Gardner, Joseph Martin Luther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American murderer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th January 1970
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 2008
Place of death Columbia