What was the penalty given to the defendant convicted of murdering his girlfriend in Cristina Gutierrez's 1993 case?
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Cristina Gutierrez Maria Cristina Gutierrez (February 28, 1951 – January 30, 2004) was an American criminal defense attorney who represented several high profile defendants in the 1990s and the first Hispanic woman to be counsel of record in a case before the Supreme Court of the United States. She was the initial trial attorney for Adnan Syed, the Baltimore area teen who was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee in 1999. The murder trial and conviction gained national attention in 2014 and 2015 after being the subject of the first season of the online podcast "Serial".
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Murder of Hae Min Lee Hae Min Lee (Hangul: 이해민 ; October 15, 1980 – January 13, 1999) was a Korean-American high school senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, who disappeared on January 13, 1999. Her body was found four weeks later in Leakin Park, the victim of murder by manual strangulation. Adnan Masud Syed, her ex-boyfriend, was convicted in February 2000 of first-degree murder and given a life sentence plus 30 years.
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David Martin Long David Martin Long (July 15, 1953 – December 8, 1999) was an American murderer. He was arrested after the 1986 hatchet killings of three women in Lancaster, Texas, and was convicted of murder and sentenced to the death penalty. Long was never tried for any other murders, but he also confessed to killing a gas station attendant in a 1978 beating in San Bernardino, California, and killing a former boss, Bob Rogers, in a 1983 fire in Bay City, Texas.
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Melbert Ford Melbert Ray Ford, Jr. (December 9, 1960 – June 9, 2010) was an American convicted double murderer who in 2010 was executed by lethal injection by the U.S. state of Georgia after being convicted of murder in 1987.
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Gary Lee Davis Gary Lee Davis (August 13, 1944 – October 13, 1997) was a convicted murderer and rapist who was executed by the U.S. state of Colorado in 1997. He is the only person to date to have been subject to the death penalty in Colorado since its reinstatement in 1977.
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Francisco Martin Duran Francisco Martin Duran (born September 8, 1968) is most known for his actions of October 29, 1994, when he fired 29 rounds from an SKS rifle at the White House. He was later convicted of attempting to assassinate United States President Bill Clinton and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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Debra Milke Debra Jean Milke (née Sadeik; born March 10, 1964) is a German-American woman who spent over 25 years in prison in the state of Arizona. She was one of three people sentenced to death for the December 2, 1989 shooting death of her four-year-old son, Christopher Conan Milke. Her alleged conspirators were her roommate James Lynn Styers and his friend Roger Mark Scott. Neither testifed against her and both agreed that she was not present at the shooting. Scott implicated Milke as the mastermind while Styers said she had no involvement whatsoever. They implicated each other as the actual shooter. Who that was remains a subject of speculation.
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Sergio Dorantes Sergio Dorantes Zurita (born 1946) is a Mexican photojournalist who was jailed in Mexico City for the murder of his wife, Alejandra Dehesa in 2003. However, on April 3, 2012 the judge in the case declared there was no evidence against him, and he was freed. The case had been highly controversial, not least because of the lack of forensic evidence and the only witness who places Dorantes at the scene of the crime had since recanted his testimony.
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Mark Gardner (murderer) Mark Edward Gardner, (c. 1956 – September 8, 1999) was a murderer executed at the age of 43 by lethal injection by the State of Arkansas. He was convicted of the December 12, 1985 murders of Joe and Martha Joyce, as well as the rape and murder of their daughter, Sara Joyce McCurdy, in Sebastian County, Arkansas.
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Louise Peete Louise Peete (September 20, 1880 – April 11, 1947) was a convicted American murderer. Peete was first convicted of murdering wealthy mining engineer Jacob C. Denton in 1920 and was sentenced to life in prison. She was paroled in April 1939. In May 1945, she was convicted of murdering her employer, Margaret Logan, and sentenced to death. She was executed in April 1947 making her the second, and one of only four women, to be executed in the California gas chamber.
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Khaleel Chishty Dr Khaleel Chishty is a Pakistani citizen who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in January 2011 for killing a man after a fight in the Indian town of Ajmer in 1992. The trial lasted 18-years during which time he was kept under house arrest in his ancestral home in Ajmer.
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Frederick Atkins Frederick Atkins (died 2005) was a convicted murderer who received a mandatory death sentence from a court in Barbados. He died in prison while the Inter-American Court of Human Rights was considering his appeal.
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Donato Bilancia Donato "Walter" Bilancia (born July 10, 1951) is a serial killer who murdered 17 people – nine women and eight men – on the Italian Riviera in the seven months from October, 1997 to May, 1998. He was sentenced to 13 terms of life imprisonment, with no possibility of release.
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Jimmy Lee Gray Jimmy Lee Gray (September 25, 1949 – September 2, 1983) was convicted for the murder of three-year-old Deressa Jean Scales in 1976, after kidnapping and anally raping her. At the time of this murder, he was free on parole following a conviction in Arizona for the murder of a 16-year-old girl.
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Murder of Daniel Zamudio Daniel Mauricio Zamudio Vera (3 August 1987 – 27 March 2012) has become a symbol against homophobic violence in Chile after his 2012 murder. On 2 March 2012, Zamudio, a Chilean gay man, was beaten and tortured for several hours in the San Borja Park in downtown Santiago. The four attackers, allegedly linked to a neo-Nazi gang, attacked him after learning he was gay. His death and all the media attention contributed to accelerating legislation against discrimination, as well as opening new doors of acceptance and tolerance of differences in the conservative country.
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Priscilla Ford Priscilla Joyce Ford (February 10, 1929 – January 29, 2005) was a mass murderer who was sentenced to death after driving her Lincoln Continental down a sidewalk in Reno, Nevada on Thanksgiving Day in 1980. The attack killed six people and injured 23 more. She had schizophrenia. Ford launched numerous appeals against her death sentence, all of which failed. A heavy smoker, she died at the age of 75 after suffering from emphysema.
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Michael Stone (English murderer) Michael Stone (born Michael John Goodban in 1960) is a British man who was convicted of a notorious double murder in 1996. He has continued to assert his innocence. His original conviction was overturned on appeal but a second trial resulted in another verdict of guilty after another prisoner claimed that Stone had confessed to the killings while on remand in prison. His most recent appeal, in 2004, also failed. He is serving three life sentences and must spend at least 25 years in prison.
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Marcelo Costa de Andrade Marcelo Costa de Andrade (born January 2, 1967), a.k.a. "The Vampire of Niterói", is a Brazilian serial killer convicted of raping and killing 14 boys.
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Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui (November 1, 1970 – October 13, 1998) was convicted of three counts of aggravated first-degree murder for the drowning and beating of Kievan Sarbacher, 3, and the shooting deaths of his mother, Melissa Sarbacher, 21, and a second woman, Lisa Vera-Acevedo, 27.
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Francisca Ballesteros Francisca Ballesteros (born 1969) is a Spanish murderer who between 1990 and 2004 killed her two daughters and her husband and attempted to kill her son.
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Katherine Knight Katherine Mary Knight (born 24 October 1955) is the first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. She was convicted of the murder of her partner, John Charles Thomas Price, in October 2001, and is currently imprisoned at the Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre in New South Wales. She stabbed him to death and then skinned him. She then put his skin on a meat hook, cooked his head and parts of his body, and placed them together with vegetables on plates with placecards with his children's names.
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Coy Wayne Wesbrook Coy Wayne "Elvis" Wesbrook (February 1, 1958 – March 9, 2016) was an American mass murderer, convicted for the killing of 5 people in Channelview, Texas on November 13, 1997. Wesbrook fatally shot his ex-wife Gloria Jean Coons, her female roommate, and three men during a party at Coons' home in an apparent fit of jealous rage.