Michael Martin McDonnell - Oregon
http://docpub.state.or.us/OOS/imageL...p?idno=4508058
Facts of the Crime:
He was 33 years old and high on meth on December 22, 1984, when he forced his way into Joey Keever’s car at a stop sign near Yoncalla and stabbed her 42 times. McDonnell killed Keever, 22, just 16 days after Oregon’s death penalty law went into effect. During his first trial in 1985, defense attorneys argued successfully in Douglas County Circuit Court that Oregon’s new death penalty law might be unconstitutional. The case went to the state Court of Appeals, which rejected the appeal in 1986, sending the case back to Douglas County, where a jury convicted McDonnell of aggravated murder and sentenced him to death in 1988.