DAY TWO

Fulton murder prosecutions

Associated Press (ENLARGE)

Paul Howard

District Attorney: Paul L. Howard Jr.

Party: Democrat; Served: 1997 to present

Howard in his own words: "Due to the volume of murder cases in Fulton County, it would be impossible for our court system to absorb all eligible death penalty cases because of the length of time and resources required to prosecute them."

Record: Howard and his predecessor, Lewis Slaton, sought death for 16 of the 220 murderers who were eligible. Juries sentenced two of them to death

Analysis: Fulton, which handled more death-eligible cases than any other circuit, sought death in 7 percent of them.

THE CASES

Death sentence

Gregory Lawler, 44
Lawler shot and killed Atlanta police officer John Sowa and paralyzed Officer Patricia Cocciolone as they approached his apartment in 1997. He opened fire with an AR-15 rifle as they fled for cover.

Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace, 24
A parolee, Pace broke into the homes of four women in 1988 and 1989, raping and strangling them all. Three victims were 78 or older.

Life without parole (Death penalty sought)

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, 56
Al-Amin, 56, formerly a civil rights activist known as H. Rap Brown, shot Ricky Kinchen and another sheriff's deputy in 2000 as they prepared to arrest him on theft and traffic charges. Kinchen died of his injuries. Sentenced by jury.

Kimani Atu Archie, 24
Shot and killed Officer Russell Stalnaker in 1999 after an argument. The officer's family wanted a death sentence, but Howard accepted a plea bargain because Archie had been diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic. Plea bargain.

Timothy Carl Dawson, 37
In 1998, Dawson shot and killed three men staying at the Atlanta Hilton to attend an Atlanta Falcons football game and a fourth at a College Park hotel. (The Georgia Supreme Court overturned use of the electric chair in a pretrial ruling in Dawson's case.) Sentenced by jury.

Ahmond Dunnigan, 25
Dunnigan, founder of the Doom gang, directed the torture and killing of Nikki Waller, 15, as revenge for not returning another gang member's clothing. Over three days in 1993, Waller was set on fire, shocked with jumper cables, forced to drink bleach, sexually assaulted and drowned in a cooler. Dunnigan also negotiated a life sentence in DeKalb County for a second murder. Plea bargain.

Quentin D. Hunnicutt, 22
Hunnicutt was holding several people hostage in 1996 when he sliced Terrance Bailey's back open to the spinal column, sprayed pepper spray in the wound and slit his throat. Bailey was 5. Prosecutors said a death sentence was unlikely because Hunnicutt was schizophrenic. Plea bargain.

Kimjon Ingram, 23
Ingram, a top lieutenant in a gang known as FOLKS (Followers of Our Lord Satan), firebombed a Mechanicsville apartment in 1994 to settle a dispute involving a gang member's sister. Dynisha Henderson, 21 months old, and her 6-week-old sister Lexious perished in the flames. Sentenced by judge.

William Charles Lewis, 41
Lewis ambushed and killed his estranged wife's best friend, Cynthia Rolle, in her driveway in 2001. To throw off police, he gunned down two strangers, one of whom died, and then his ex-wife in a series of shootings a month later. Guilty plea, sentencing by judge.

Pharina S. Peterson, 59
Peterson tortured her 5-year-old grandson, beating and burning him, denying him food, force-feeding him feces and tying him to a stairway banister. Terrell weighed 27 pounds when he died in 1998. State legislators passed a law named after Terrell that allows doctors to take temporary custody of at-risk children. Plea bargain.

Jason Pierce, 21
Pierce shot his girlfriend in the face in 1999 and killed her two roommates, Patrice Lassiter and Monique Brown, execution-style while escaping their East Point apartment. Plea bargain.

Jeffrey Sharp, 31
Sharp raped and beat a 19-year-old prostitute, Jessica Marie Shultz, fracturing her skull, in 1997. He tied her throat to a tree with a stocking, and she strangled when she collapsed. Sentenced by jury.

Ivan Christopher Simpson, 35
Simpson raped and murdered a neighbor, Patricia Nuckles, in 2000, binding her hands and strangling her with an electrical cord. He sexually assaulted her after she died. Howard said a death sentence was unattainable because Simpson had schizophrenia and other mental disorders. Plea bargain.

Alvin Smith, 34
Ricky McCoy, 28
Smith and McCoy killed three men in one day in robberies at two McFrugal rental car outlets in 1995. Smith and McCoy each killed someone else in separate robberies during the month prior to the McFrugal murders. Plea bargain for all five murders. McCoy was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Tommy C. Wright Jr., 24
In 2001, Wright beat, raped and stabbed Erica Thompson 10 times in front of her 4-year-old daughter. He then drowned Thompson, who was eight months' pregnant, in the bathtub and beat and bound the daughter. Plea bargain.

Amin Abdullah, 26
Abdullah shot three people and robbed one of them in January 2001. Teresa Winters, 39, died of her wounds.

Terrance Acliese, 19
Maraleto Willoughby, 19
The two men met Eric Herndon outside a nightclub in 1998 and drove him home, where they robbed him and stabbed him more than 40 times. As he was leaving, Acliese kissed Herndon on the forehead and said, "Hope you make it to heaven. Goodnight."

Derrick Agee, 21
In 2000, Agee shot Damour Richardson, 24, in front of his 4-year-old son over the outcome of a pickup basketball game. "He was obsessed with being respected," a prosecutor said. Agee was also charged with killing a nightclub bouncer, but was never tried because a witness recanted.

Dennis Allen Jr., 18
Allen and a 15-year-old prostitute called a cab to take them home in 2000. Allen gave the driver, Friday Akoma, 29, a different address and shot him in the head when they arrived. He took a cell phone, a pager and $18.

Antonio Demetrius Anderson, 25
Anderson opened fire at a group of men playing dice in July 2000. A stray shot struck and killed Patricia Rosemond, 45, just as she stepped off a MARTA bus holding her granddaughter.

Ordell Djuan Anderson, 20
Police responding to a 911 call in 1998 found Anderson in an upstairs bedroom next to the body of his girlfriend, Sonja Smith, 29. He shot at an officer, jumped out a window and was apprehended as flames engulfed the room.

Morrell Ashford, 23
Isiah Heard, 25
Ashford and Heard traveled to Atlanta from Alabama to steal cocaine in 1995. Ashford shot and killed Jerald Manley and wounded two other people, but left a locked briefcase containing his photograph and income tax forms.

Calvin Montez Baitey, 23
Baitey lost $5 in a College Park dice game to Daniel Hardy, 24, in 2000. He left, returned with a gun, demanded money and shot Hardy.

Genous D. Banks, 39
Johnny North, 43, wanted to end a romantic relationship and ask Banks to move out of their apartment in 2001. Banks bound North's legs with an extension cord and beat him in the head repeatedly with a 25-pound weight.

Henry "Shorty" Benford, 23
Benford and two other men went to an abandoned house where they joined Eric Martin, 56, in drinking alcohol and smoking crack cocaine. Benford left, borrowed a shotgun and returned to rob Martin and shoot him in the stomach.

Kevin Bowen, 21
Corey Simpson, 28
Bowen and Simpson, both security guards at a northwest Atlanta apartment complex, approached Charles Patrick, 24, in 1998 with the intent to rob him. Bowen shot him in the shoulder at point-blank range.

Damion Braithwaite, 23
Dukar Watson, 18
In 1996, Braithwaite, Watson and three others visited a friend, Chauncey Fleming, and smoked marijuana with him. Then they bound and gagged Fleming and two other friends and took turns shooting them.

John Levi Brooks, 33
In 2002, Brooks abducted his girlfriend, Telma Morris, stripped her, gagged her with duct tape and strangled her. She had told a friend that she planned to stop seeing Brooks.

Antonio Lamar "Duck" Brown, 22
In 1996, Brown and several other men forced their way inside a rooming house known for drug sales. As they tried to rob the residents, Brown shot James Smith, 33, who took Brown's weapon before dying and shot him with his own gun.

Michael Jerrod Brown, 30
Salvadore Murillo, 28, visited an Atlanta apartment looking for crack cocaine and a prostitute. Brown sold him the drugs and pulled a gun when they argued over the price; he took a few dollars and jewelry and then shot Murillo in the head.

Gearol Bryant, 27
Bryant hitchhiked from Summerville to arrive unannounced at the College Park apartment of Dale Ryan, 60, a friend of his uncle's. Ryan let him in and offered him pizza and beer. Bryant shot Ryan in the back of the head and stole his car.

Corey Burtts, 22
Burtts shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, Deshunn Cooper, and her new boyfriend outside a Georgia Avenue variety store in 1994.

Marvin Cain, 21
Cain abducted and killed Lea Long, 16, in 1996 after she left the Waffle House where she worked. He kept her body for five days so he could show it to members of a gang he wanted to join.

Christopher Carr, 23
Navy veteran Robert Trowell, 53, was servicing washers and dryers in the laundry room of a Bankhead Highway apartment complex in 1998. Carr shot him and stole a bag of quarters.

James Chapman, 30
Warren Jones, 35, and a friend had just parked outside a Harwell Road nightclub when four men surprised them in 1989. Jones was beaten and shot. His attackers took $60 and his car. Chapman surrendered to police in Alabama five years later.

Gerard Martinis "Moon" Character, 26
Marcus Demon "Weasel" Character, 24
Terrence G. "Gam" Roberts, 21
The Character brothers and Roberts fired into a crowd during a fight outside a Bankhead Highway nightclub in 2002. Jerry Lovejoy, 25, and Leonard Justice, 23, were killed. Roberts was also convicted of vehicular homicide in Gwinnett for killing a 23-year-old passenger while driving drunk in 2001.

Ronnie Chinn, 18
Marika Wicks, 18
Chinn and Wicks left a party in 1999 looking for someone to rob. Both men shot taxi driver John Agazie in the back of the head after they got in his cab at the East Point MARTA station. They took the cab and $50.

Cheryl Christian, 28
Sinora Turner, 3, died in 1998 about an hour after being struck in the abdomen. Her brother said he heard Christian, their mother, threaten to whip her if she soiled her clothing again.

Curtis Lamar Clark, 46
Michael Head and a friend were looking to buy drugs when they met Clark in a parking lot in 1997. Clark approached them with a gun, demanded money and shot Head in the chest after a scuffle. Clark went through his pockets and stole his money.

Brian Burrell Coleman, 30
In 1994, Coleman raped, sodomized and strangled a woman who was never identified, then left her nude body in a vacant lot downtown. Coleman admitted having sex but denied killing her.

Bennie Collier, 42
Christopher Lewis drove up to Collier, a drug dealer on the street, snatched some crack cocaine from his hand and sped off. Collier chased their car down, demanded the drugs back and shot Lewis when he found they had hidden some rather than return it. Lewis begged Collier not to kill him, but Collier replied, "I got to, man."

Raynard Wellington Cook, 17
Josephine Holmes Cook, a Fulton County Superior Court judge, was found dead, shot in the back, in her home in 1996. Her son, convicted of killing her, waited more than seven hours to call police; authorities said she would have survived if she had received immediate medical treatment.

James Cooper Jr., 27
Cooper walked into a southwest Atlanta laundromat in 2003 and demanded money. Cooper shot owner John Atkins six times as he emptied the coin dispenser.

Samuel Eugene Daniel, 37
Daniel met Maurice Owens, 32, on the street about 5 a.m. one day in May 1994. They had been in a fight a couple days earlier. They fought again, and Daniel stabbed Owens 32 times in the chest and abdomen.

Kenzo Lamond Davis, 23
Clinton Perry and a friend got lost in Atlanta in 2003 after driving up from Fort Valley. They pulled off the interstate and asked for directions, but Davis pulled a gun and demanded money. He shot Perry and robbed his friend.

Michael Anthony Davis, 32
Davis broke in the home of an ex-girlfriend on Christmas Eve 2000. He fought with Kevin Collins, her new boyfriend, and then she ordered Davis to leave. At the door, Davis turned, pulled a pistol and shot and killed Collins.

David Edmonds, 27
Edmonds, after smoking crack cocaine, demanded money from two men in a boarding house in 1998. Edmonds shot Chrishon Guinn and Byron Carmichael dead when they refused.

Darnell Thomas Evans, 20
Evans followed Marvin Edwards, 51, to steal his Cadillac El Dorado in 1995. He ordered Edwards to get in the trunk and Edwards refused, saying Evans would have to shoot him. Evans shot him in the chest and took the car.

Victorino Fitz, 29
Fitz, a leader of the Latin Kings gang, ordered the 1998 killings of three men in Sandy Springs. Fitz argued self-defense because a rival drug dealer had paid them to kill him.

Roderick J. Fitzpatrick, 23
Fitzpatrick stabbed his former girlfriend, Victoria Flowers, 19, with a pair of work shears after seeing her with her new boyfriend in 1994. He had also stabbed her several months earlier.

Ronald Bernard Fletcher, 37
In 2001, Fletcher robbed, tied up and beat Emma Starr Hickmon, 90, who had let him live in her basement in exchange for doing odd jobs. Fletcher was sentenced to life without parole as a recidivist.

Michael Fortson, 32
Fortson and another man held up businessman Stephen Hynes, 43, and his fiancée in 1983 while they were grilling steaks on the patio of her Buckhead apartment. Both men shot Hynes when the victims attempted to flee. Fortson's first conviction was overturned and he was convicted of murder again in 1996.

Terry Franklin, 24
Franklin beat, stomped and kicked Kenneth Briddell in 1998 because he wouldn't give him $5. The victim was homeless and penniless.

Frederick Fulton, 19
Fulton shot Tirus Q. Stone multiple times with a sawed-off shotgun in 1997, a day after he had robbed Stone and forced him to strip down to his underwear. A witness heard Stone begging for his life.

Rickey Eugene Funderburk, 43
Funderburk, the night manager of an adult video store, burned down the house where his girlfriend lived in 2000 after they argued about money that had been taken from the store. Connie Hawkins, 31, died of smoke inhalation. Funderburk was sentenced to life without parole as a recidivist.

Jahanon Gibson, 22
Gibson beat his 2-year-old son, Jaihiem Fair, severely with his hands and a belt in 1999 to discipline him. The child died as his parents were taking him to the hospital; authorities said he had bruises all over his body, two black eyes and a swollen lip.

Arthur Grant, 37
Grant was fleeing police in a stolen pickup truck in 1999 when he ran a red light, collided with two other cars and killed Joseph Lewis Jr., 6, a passenger in one of the cars. Grant was sentenced to life without parole as a recidivist.

Raymond Granville, 20
Granville beat, kicked and stabbed Thomas Smothers, 51, who cut grass to support himself. Granville, who thought Smothers had stolen something, stabbed him more than 20 times.

Paul Benjamin Greene, 20
Etheridge Conaway, 42
Cornelius Mason Jr., 37
The trio, all drug dealers, beat two men on New Year's Eve 1997 in a dispute over an attempted robbery. They shot one of the men, Antonio Johnson, wrapped him in a sheet and drove him to a nearby school where they killed him execution-style.

Joseph Hall Jr., 18
Edward McCloud, 21
Hall and McCloud tied up David Cook, covered his face with a pillowcase, stabbed him more than 40 times and slit his throat in 2002. Police found Cook's body in his 28th-floor condominium near Lenox Square.

Larry Hardnett, 39
In 2000, Hardnett tricked Phillip Haynes into looking under the hood of his car for a mechanical problem. Then he shot him. Haynes ran. Hardnett drove after him, tracked him into the woods and shot him again as he hid behind a tree. Haynes stole money and a cell phone. Jury trial, sentenced to life without parole as a recidivist.

Terry Harper, 23
Emmanuel Ruiz, 24
On his 23rd birthday in 2001, Harper shot and killed Dirk Luhrman, David Carty and Traci Glover in a robbery of FJ's Bar on Metropolitan Parkway. Prosecutors planned to seek the death penalty but changed their mind before trial.

Antonio Harris, 17
Harris and a friend approached Toni Crawford, 31, to rob her after she left a store one evening in 1995. Harris's friend shot Crawford during the ensuing struggle.

Charles Kendrick Harris, 19
Benjamin Danyali was at a service station on West Paces Ferry Road when Harris pulled in and spoke to him in 1995. Danyali got in Harris's car and they drove off. Down the road, Harris shot him in the head, stole nine ounces of cocaine and pushed him out of the car.

Fernando Harwell, 18
Harvell and an accomplice broke into an apartment in 1996 and demanded money and valuables. Harvell beat Charles Wood and his stepson with a baseball bat. His accomplice shot and killed Wood, a security guard, when he lunged for a gun in his desk. The accomplice, who was shot and paralyzed in the incident, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

Alexander Napoleon Head, 30
Head sodomized and killed Brandon Searcy, 8, in 1997. Brandon, who was abducted as he walked to his school bus stop, had often visited and played with Head's 4-year-old son.

John Henry, 37
Henry was arrested in 2001 for hitting his 22-year-old girlfriend, Charlenthia Hornsby, in the face. A month later, he approached her as she sat in her car in her driveway, asked her to roll the window down and shot her when she refused.

Milton Henry, 46
Henry, who had served 10 years in prison for a previous murder, stabbed his estranged wife's male friend, Harvey Kemp, 31, in 1997 after confronting him about the relationship. Then he returned to his wife's apartment and stabbed her in the head, nearly severing a portion of her ear.

Freddie Hilton, 18
In 1971, as a black militant, Hilton gunned down Atlanta police Officer James Richard Greene and took his badge and gun as trophies. Greene, who was chosen at random, had stopped his patrol wagon to eat a ham biscuit. Hilton was convicted 32 years later.

Alton Hooks, 42
Hooks stabbed his girlfriend, Diane Gibbs, and her 20-year-old son to death in 1999. Their bodies were found stuffed in a closet. Hooks' ex-wife told police 10 years earlier that he had snuck in and cut her throat while she was sleeping.

Darrick Hubbard, 20
Bobby Strozier, 20
Hubbard and Strozier, while robbing a crack house in 1997, assaulted Dianne Mitchell and argued about who would get to kill her. Hubbard shot her in the abdomen. Hubbard pistol-whipped another woman who was present, and one of them poured hot wax into her wounds.

John Alvin Ivey, 22
Ellis Dukes Jr., 59
Ivey shot Robert Ellis, the manager of a Hardee's restaurant, during a 1996 armed robbery. Dukes waited outside in the car after giving instructions to Ivey and two accomplices. They left with money from the store's cash registers.

Shelton "Brick" Jackson, 24
Jarvis Matthews, 22
Jackson and Matthews ambushed Grant Reynolds, 32, and a couple friends who came in 2001 to buy some wheel rims for a car. Jackson demanded money and shot Reynolds when he said he had none. Matthews also opened fire. Reynolds died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

Terry Robert Jackson, 34
Jackson killed Atlanta police Officer Sam Guy in 1975 during a motel robbery near Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. Jackson was convicted 27 years later after an accomplice confessed his role in the robbery to police.

Jermaine John, 24
Craig Massey, 18
Massey and John met Kish Barrington, 23, at Brookwood Plaza in 2002 and gave him $2,000 as a middleman to buy marijuana for them. Massey beat and shot Barrington after he returned and said he had been robbed and could not get the drugs. Jury trial for John, plea bargain for Massey.

David Michael Johnson, 28
Tyrone Roberts, 26
In 1998, Johnson, Roberts and two other men entered a barbershop where people had gathered for a birthday party. They demanded money and a struggle ensued. Roberts shot and killed a partygoer who was running away. Johnson shot another man, who survived, three times.

Davon Rogae Johnson, 29
Johnson broke into Karen Williams' apartment in 1998, bound her with an electrical cord and left her to strangle herself. He stole her car and drove to Charleston, S.C. Johnson told a friend repeatedly, "I killed that bitch."

Dontate Johnson, 20
Robert Turner, 54, of Flowery Branch made a living renovating homes and selling them to low-income families. He was working on a house a few doors down from Johnson's in 1998 when Johnson demanded money. He shot Turner in the chest, then again in the head when Turner charged him and grabbed the barrel of the gun.

Rebecca Susan Johnson, 38
In 1993, Johnson, her 14-year-old son and another teenager planned to rob a Missouri man, Jerry Allen Clark, who was visiting while carrying a large sum of cash from an insurance settlement. The teenager shot and killed Clark.

Frederick Bryant Khalees, 31
Khalees and his friend Kenneth Davis, 51, had a falling-out over money. In 2002, Khalees shot Davis, who survived for several weeks and named Khalees as his attacker.

Tyra Dale Lane, 22
Lane held up a Krystal's restaurant in College Park in 2002, shooting and killing assistant manager Danielle Simpson, his former boss. He stole a little more than $1,000.

Chuck Lee, 28
In 2001, Lee asked Henrico Morant for a ride home about 3 a.m. at a southeast Atlanta apartment complex. Morant's body was found in his car a few hours later with a gunshot wound. Prosecutors said Lee tried to rob him.

Derrick E. Lee, 19
In 1997, Lee shot Andre Wilson, 24, a man he had grown up with in northwest Atlanta. Wilson was trying to steal his car, and Lee said he acted in self-defense because he feared Wilson would run him over.

Kevin James Lester, 36
Steve Neal Williams, 35
Lester, a dishwasher, set Eloise Grogan on fire in 1993 after Grogan's estranged husband paid him $200. Williams said he paid Lester, his cousin, to hurt her but not to kill her.

Willie Henry Lewis, 17
Lewis and two other men committed a series of armed robberies over four days in 2001. Lewis shot and killed Zavier Dinkins, 17, as he was walking with a friend, and Kijuan Webb, 13, a few hours later outside an Old Hapeville Road apartment. Lewis was sentenced to life plus 140 years in prison.

Serchion "T-Bone" Lowe, 22
Lowe got into a fistfight in 1994 with Adrian Smith. After Smith backed off, Lowe shot the unarmed man in the arm with a gun handed to him by his girlfriend. He shot Smith a second time in the stomach as he knelt and begged for his life.

Demetrius Lucear, 18
Lucear, wearing a werewolf mask, and two 15-year-old boys robbed a Huddle House restaurant in 1996. Lucear shot a patron, who survived, but one of the boys was killed in an exchange of gunfire with the son of a restaurant employee.

Vincent Andre Lupoe Jr., 21
In a 2003 carjacking, Lupoe ordered Tyler Kane out of his car, beat him with the butt of a gun and then ran him over with his 1996 Nissan Sentra. "If I could sentence you to more, I would," Superior Court Judge Isaac Jenrette said.

Troy Major, 25
Mark Dermond of Dunwoody drove into Atlanta in 2000 on his 47th birthday to buy crack cocaine. Major approached Dermond's car, demanded money and shot him three times.

Willie Lee Mann, 19
Frank Bennett, 30, of Lithia Springs drove to a southeast Atlanta apartment complex to buy marijuana in 2000. Mann shot and robbed Bennett as he waited for the drugs.

Anthony "Ant" McKnight, 24
McKnight shot and killed Gary Horning, an auto worker passing through town, in a southwest Atlanta hotel room in 2002. Six weeks later, he shot and killed Rosendo Urban, 20, during a robbery.

Sundiato Moody, 21
In 1998, Moody beat a homeless man named William Peaks, 42, with a stick the size of a baseball bat as he lay folded up on the ground, pleading for him to stop. The beating on Cleveland Avenue knocked out Peaks' teeth and caused bleeding on the brain. He died in a hospital 10 days later.

Allen Christopher Moore, 19
Moore knocked on the door of Eric Kemp, 28, in 2001 while Kemp was on the phone with his girlfriend. Moore shot him 16 times in front of his 9-year-old daughter because he believed Kemp had cheated him in a $20,000 drug deal.

Ladell Moreland, 25
Moreland and a friend thought about stealing Andrew Green's car at a Bankhead Highway gas station, but his friend ran when he saw that Green was armed. Moreland continued toward the car and shot Green, 21, in the chest.

Deandre Murphy, 21
Murphy and August Seale, 16, were playing the Street Fighter video game and gambling over the outcome. Murphy lost and demanded his $80 back. He shot Seale in the head as he was about to return the money, then dragged the body outside and left it behind a tool shed.

Marlo Yvette "Budweiser" Nichols, 29
Nichols got into a fight in 1997 with an ex-boyfriend in a nightclub parking lot. She shot at him but missed, striking Danny McNeal, 35, as he left the club. She said she was sorry and ran away.

Gary Lamont Oliver, 25
Dexter Wallace and a couple friends were going to get some food when Oliver approached, stuck a gun through the window and shouted at Wallace to pay him the money he owed. Wallace gave him $12 but it wasn't enough, and Oliver shot at him in the back seat and again after he climbed out of the car, striking him in the chest.

Deunte Quintella Parks, 18
Parks killed his former girlfriend, Marquita Scott, and her aunt Beryl Murrill in 1996 in a home invasion of Murrill's Springdale Road home. Two other women in the home were wounded.

Jerry Patterson, 44
Patterson beat and stabbed Gladys Windsor, 86, in her East Point mobile home in 2000. He had been going door to door looking for odd jobs. He stole about $800.

Terri Lynn Peterson, 28 (see Pharina Peterson)
Peterson participated in the prolonged torture that led to the death of her 5-year-old nephew, Terrell Peterson, in 1998.

Robert Ponder, 21
Ponder shot his girlfriend, Martina Moore, 21, to death at her northwest Atlanta apartment. He demanded that she pay him money she owed, followed her into her apartment and killed her. He also wounded Moore's mother and her boyfriend. Ponder was sentenced to life plus 80 years in prison.

Mario Lanzo Quillian, 36
Anthony Clay, 43, argued with Quillian at a Memorial Day cookout in 1999. Quillian left and returned with a gun, then got into an argument with Clay's brother Gregory, whom he shot. Anthony then retrieved a handgun and attempted to load it, but it came apart in his hands. He ran but fell down, and Quillian approached and shot him twice in the back. Both brothers died.

Dalreno Robinson, 35
A convicted armed robber, Robinson killed an acquaintance, Kevin Stiggers, 31, with a steak knife during an argument. The dispute started when Stiggers asked Robinson to return his MARTA card. Robinson was sentenced to life without parole as a recidivist.

Lawrence Robinson, 18
Robinson raped a 12-year-old girl and then stabbed her aunt, Patricia Moore, to death in 1996. Moore said the sex was consensual and the aunt attacked him, throwing herself repeatedly onto a knife in his hand.

Ricky B. Rose, 37
In 1996, Rose beat and strangled Tamyra Lilly, who was seven months' pregnant, leaving her body in a field. He told friends he had raped and killed her because she owed him money. Rose had served nearly 10 years in prison for a prior rape. He was sentenced to life without parole as a recidivist.

Elijah Salahuddin, 21
Salahuddin, upset about repairs on his gray Cadillac, shot and killed four men who were playing spades in a house on West Marietta Street in 1995. Howard sought the death penalty but withdrew it when a witness who had identified Salahuddin faltered in pre-trial testimony.

Tyrone Scott, 36
Scott, a convicted rapist, beat and strangled Dorothy Hicks in 1997 and threw her body out of a second-story window in his apartment. Her blood was on his bedspread. Scott had been convicted of a similar, non-fatal assault on an Ohio woman in 1983.

James Shaw, 37
In 2002, Shaw stabbed Rowland Hardwick, 53, a co-worker in the cafe at the Apparel Mart in Atlanta. Prosecutors said Hardwick had made a homosexual advance to Shaw in the restaurant's bathroom. Hardwick was stabbed 40 times.

Craig Sheard, 28
Elliot Sheard, 29
These two men, who are cousins, stabbed Charles Elder, 66, at least 50 times in his neck, head and chest with a butcher knife during a 1997 burglary and armed robbery.

Steve Sherrell, 21
Sherrell was involved in a series of carjackings in and around their neighborhood. In 1993, they demanded that Jamie Weldon, 17, give them his car at Welcome All Park. A 16-year-old co-defendant shot and killed Weldon as he ran from them.

Gary Simpson, 39
In 2002, Simpson shot and killed three men who had been helping to build a barbecue pit in his yard because he wrongly suspected they had burglarized his home. "These three guys did nothing wrong, and they were executed like animals," a prosecutor said.

Demitric Andre Smith, 29
Smith stabbed his girlfriend, Yolanda Bridges, seven times in their northwest Atlanta home in 1997. Neighbors found the body after hearing cries of her 1- and 2-year-old children, who had spent the night alone with their mother's body.

Marvin Spiller, 22
In 1995, Spiller shot and killed Courtney Price, 20, one of several men he had argued with as he drove past their pickup basketball game.

D'Andre Tylon Sweet, 19
Sweet, a member of the Blood gang of Los Angeles, shot and killed Carl Scott in a 1995 robbery as Scott and his wife walked along Campbellton Road. The murder weapon was found beneath his seat when police pulled over the car he was riding in an hour later.

Shaun Thomas, 28
Thomas beat his 10-year-old daughter to death in 2002 while his wife took their 5-year-old son to school. He told police that the victim, Asia Wheeler, had been injured when she fell out of bed. Asia had numerous broken bones and internal injuries.

Bruke Tesfaye, 20
Joseph Johnson, 23
Tesfaye and Johnson shot and killed Prem Sharma, the manager of a liquor store who had given Tesfaye a job, during a 1997 robbery. Tesfaye confessed 14 months later to U.S. embassy officials in Ethiopia. Jury trial for Tesfaye, plea bargain for Johnson.

Ambrocio Valdivia, 32
In 2001, Valdivia shot and killed Joaquin Carmonda-Diaz and Dario Bernal-Isidor and wounded a third man attending a birthday party next door. He became angry when they knocked on his door and asked if they could buy some beer.

Kenneth Ware, 41
Ware attacked Sherri Baker, 34, and beat her severely with a stick. She died of her injuries two days later. Ware told police he was defending himself when she attacked him with a knife. Police said his statements were inconsistent and he had kicked in a bedroom door to get to her.

Marion Washington, 34
Washington killed Canerius Brown, 11, in 1998 because she had told others that he had been sexually molesting her. Her beaten and stabbed body, half-naked, was found beneath the bleachers at a nearby high school.

Eric Wheeler, 30
Wheeler burst into the home of Sonya Corbett about 3 a.m. screaming, "I'm going to kill everybody in here." He shot and killed Corbett, his ex-girlfriend and a mother of four, and wounded two of her friends.

Demetrius White, 23
Arthur Brett Butler, 22
Antonio Langston, 21
The three men robbed and killed Donnie Cantrell, a probation officer from Ohio visiting Atlanta for Freaknik in 1996, at the Capitol Homes public housing complex.

Christopher Wolfe, 23 (see Kimjon Ingram)
Along with another gang member, Wolfe helped to firebomb an apartment in 1994 in a gang dispute. Two infants perished in the flames. Wolfe was overheard saying after the firebomb was tossed, "Them crabs gonna burn."

Harold Wynn Jr., 47
Wynn bought beer for two women, Thomasina Adama and Barbara Barnes, in 1997 and was returning to Adama's home with them. He accused her of having a sexual relationship with Barnes and became angry when the women laughed at him. He shot and killed both women as they opened Adama's front door. As Adama begged for help, Wynn stood over her, taunted her and shot her again.

Life in prison (Plea bargains)

Henry M. Aaron, 46
In 2004, Aaron stabbed his former girlfriend, Celestine Hudgins, 41, at least 12 times for ending their relationship. He killed Hudgins at a nursing home where she was visiting a friend.

Anthony Devian Bates, 22
Bates shot and killed Annie Weaver and her adult son as he was burglarizing her home in 1996. Bates had also killed Joe Davis Love during a robbery a month earlier. Bates apologized at sentencing but said, "If I had a chance to do it again, I can't say that I wouldn't."

Kenneth Beaman, 21
In 1999, Beaman shot and stabbed to death his girlfriend's aunt, Teresa Shoemaker, and her sons, 12 and 14. The killings occurred after Shoemaker's husband asked Beaman and his girlfriend to move out of the house.

Joe L. Billups, 20
Dominique Anquione Ross, 20

In 1993, Ross and Billups forced Delray Green at gunpoint into the trunk of his car. They drove him to Mays High School, robbed him and shot him in the head as part of a mission for their gang. Plea bargain for Ross; jury trial for Billups.

George Franklin Booth, 26
Booth, a former star running back for the University of Connecticut, lost control in 1994 when he heard his girlfriend, Karen Lynn Bowers, 27, laughing in a telephone call with another man. He stabbed and beat Bowers, retrieving a second knife after breaking off the blade of the first one. He took her VCR and her car.

Antonio Brown, 21
Brown shot and killed Amber Maddox, 21, a Georgia State University student, in her father's Midtown driveway during a 2001 carjacking. Brown forced her into the back seat of a Nissan Maxima and shot her five times.

Rasheed Brown, 17
Two men carjacked Antonio Moore's Chevrolet Impala in 1998. They forced him to drive the car a short way, then ordered him out of the car and shot him as he lay on the ground.

Patrick O. Caple, 30
In 1994, Caple shot and killed Morehouse college student Michael Singleton and two friends execution-style in a Union City condominium for money and marijuana.

Franco Cox, 22
Cox was driving a stolen Lexus when a police roadblock stopped him in 2001. He sped off, dragging a state trooper who had reached in the window, and crashed into four cars, killing Viola Hickerson, 74.

Keon Davis, 19
Davis stole a carton of cigarettes in 2001 from a Bankhead Highway convenience store and shot the clerk, Jahangir Alam, immediately after ordering him to open the cash register drawer. A second clerk was critically injured but survived.

John A. Densley Jr., 18
Antoine Lafayette Duhe, 22
Treyon Demarco Williams, 17
Vernon Antoine Wyatt, 20
Drug dealer Kareem Mills, 22, went to a southwest Atlanta apartment in 1997 expecting to be paid for a drug deal. Williams shot Mills three times when Mills pulled a gun. Then he and Duhe took him to a wooded area, wrapped him in a blanket and Duhe shot him again in the head. Densley and Wyatt stayed in the apartment, where they tied up two friends of Mills and robbed them.

Dennis M. Drust, 53
Drust, a former developer and real estate agent, killed his landlady, Susan Lane, 58, and her friend Robert Statham, 73, as they tried to evict him from her Dunwoody home in 1993. Then he shot himself in the head, sustaining permanent brain damage.

Carlous Gibbs, 20
Gibbs robbed and killed Monica Tuttle, the manager of a Papa John's pizza restaurant in Sandy Springs who had fired him a few weeks earlier in 2000. Gibbs used the stolen money to buy a tattoo and pay his probation officer.

Donderica Gibson, 23
Gibson shot and killed Kelvin Veasey, 43, and stole a watch and cash at gunpoint from Veasey's brother in 1998.

Donald Barry Green, 49
Green shot and killed Andre Winder, 39, during a 2000 robbery of a drug house in southwest Atlanta. He and an accomplice stole $200 and some crack cocaine.

Anastacio Guerrero, 35
Guerrero stabbed Elias de la Cruz, 23, and Tutilio Juarez, 30, killing them both, as they slept at his ex-wife's East Point home in 1999 after a New Year's Eve party. Guerrero's ex-wife and daughter identified him as the killer.

Travellis Hamilton, 17
Philip Rau, a social studies teacher at Norcross High School, had just arrived at an artists' reception in Inman Park in 1999 when Hamilton shot him twice in the back and robbed him. Rau's girlfriend was also shot and wounded as they got out of his car.

Larry Shannon Hankerson, 21
In 1994, Hankerson shot and killed Leonard Todd Allen, an Edgewood Avenue barber who had just cut his hair. Two months later, he shot and killed Preston Kelly during an argument outside his apartment.

John Maynard Hicks, 21
Gary Hardison, 32, had won a multimillion-dollar settlement after he was critically injured in a car wreck while serving in the Navy. He was visiting the Perry Homes public housing project in 1996 when Hicks shot him in an attempted robbery.

Conrad Wallace Hill Jr., 37
Joseph Moore was working on a car in his driveway in 1998 when Hill approached him with a gun and demanded money. Moore said he didn't have any, then began pulling items out of his pocket. Hill shot him in the chest.

Ali Jackson, 21
Jackson shot two men during a 1996 robbery, killing Lester Carl Stoltz and paralyzing another man below the waist. The victims had met Jackson expecting to buy a gun. Two weeks later, Jackson and others tortured and raped a pregnant woman and a teenage girl, using hot kitchen utensils to burn them. Sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus 20 years.

Gerald Jones, 34
In 2001, Jones stabbed his wife, Naketa, 11 times and stomped her in the abdomen hard enough to kill her in front of their three children. He called 911 and confessed about half an hour later. At the time, Jones was free on bond after pulling a gun and pointing it in the face of a MARTA police officer.

Diane Kirk, 19 (see Ahmond Dunnigan)
Corey Lamar Gaither, 24
Members of the Doom gang, Kirk and Gaither participated in the three-day torture and murder of Nekita Waller, 15, in 1993. Witnesses said Kirk helped hold Waller's head underwater when she was eventually drowned. Jury trial for Kirk, plea bargain for Gaither.

Lap Van Le, 22
In 1994, Le killed Santos Romero, 19, in a fight at a Cheshire Bridge Road pool hall. Six days later, he shot and killed Sang Nguyen, 74, during an apartment break-in as he was pursuing her grandson.

Antoine Pierre Lewis, 23
In 1996, Lewis and an accomplice shot and killed Carolyn Thomas, 43, in her Stewart Avenue flower shop, a few hours after they had allegedly killed a 19-year-old college student in DeKalb County. They stole both victims' cars. DeKalb did not prosecute Lewis, but Fulton convicted him. His accomplice, Robert Lewis Rush, pleaded guilty in DeKalb in exchange for life without parole but was not prosecuted in Fulton.

Richard Dewayne London, 26
Harry and Ella Gilley, managers of a small motel, took London in and paid him for odd jobs. London, a former Army Special Forces soldier, slit their throats in 1997 to get the rental money. He also shot Mrs. Gilley, who survived by playing dead.

Carl "Scarface" Norman, 22
Norman and two other men robbed and shot DeJuan Freeman, 20, during a late-night 1995 robbery at an Atlanta apartment complex.

Rasool Parks, 20
Antonio Wiley, 17
Derrick Morris, 20
Parks and Wiley shot and killed Michael Hooten in his apartment in 1999, robbing him of drugs and money. Parks killed Hooten's girlfriend, Layvette Daniels, when she tried to escape. Morris stood guard outside. Jury trial for Parks, plea bargains for Wiley and Morris.

Charles Augusta Perry III, 22
Perry shot and killed Edward H. McAdams, a captain in the Atlanta Fire Department, as he was leaving a Carver Homes apartment. McAdams was carrying more than $2,000, but he told Perry he only had $20.

Urbano Rodriguez-Garcia, 29
He stabbed his wife, Tina Garcia, 36 times in 2001 with their small children nearby. He broke a knife off in his wife's back and went to get another one. He told police it wasn't "the real me."

Farah Shaheed, 19
Nathaniel Reynolds, 17
Army veteran LeAndre Barnes stayed out late to celebrate his 21st birthday in 1999 with his wife and a friend. As they looked for a motel to spend the night, a group of men approached and robbed them. Reynolds shot and killed Barnes when he grabbed the gunman's younger brother. Jury trial for Reynolds.

Drawin "Ra" Smith, 21
Alan C. Neal was shot and killed in 1994 in a botched armed robbery off Lenox Road near the Buckhead restaurant where he worked as a bartender. Smith, a co-worker of Neal's, admitted the crime to his stepfather, who turned him in to police.

Octavious Stready, 17
In an argument over drugs, Stready shot and killed John Michael Shore in 2002 at a Union City apartment complex. He also killed Shore's girlfriend because she was a witness and a security guard who tried to detain him. Howard said he chose not to seek the death penalty because of Stready's age. Stready was sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus 10 years.

Maurice Walker, 21
Walker spent an evening in 2002 shooting pool with Fleurvil St. Louis, losing several hundred dollars to him. They left the pool hall together to get the money. St. Louis's body was found in his car less than a mile away; Walker had shot him in the head and tried to set the car on fire.

Thadius Walls, 22
In 1996, a highly intoxicated Walls beat and choked his 64-year-old grandmother, Emma Walls, who had taken him in after his mother kicked him out of her house. He spent his grandmother's money on a prostitute and crack cocaine.

Michael Lee Waters Jr., 17
Waters shot and killed Melvin Grigley, an off-duty Atlanta homicide detective, during a 2000 carjacking.

Tony Widemon, 38
In 1994, Widemon stabbed and beat his 77-year-old mother, Wileve Widemon, while she was sleeping because she had refused to give him money for beer. He flipped over her bloody mattress and slept on it after burying her body beneath the house.