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    Donetta Hill - Pennsylvania

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    A crack-addicted prostitute from South Philadelphia, was sentenced to death in Philadelphia County on March 11, 1993 for the 1990 claw-hammer killings of two customers who had tried to short-change her. The bodies of Nghia Guy Lu, 72, and Nairobe Dupont, 21, were discovered in their homes by relatives.

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    April 9, 1992

    By Raoul V. Mowatt
    THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

    A South Philadelphia prostitute, sentenced to death yesterday for fatally beating two customers with a clawhammer after they tried to shortchange her, spat at the jury as she was being led from the courtroom.

    Donetta Hill, 25, of the 700 block of Daly Street, became only the second woman in Pennsylvania to be sentenced to die since the death penalty was reinstated in the state in 1978, prosecutors said.

    As the mother of two young children was being led out of the courtroom by a sheriff's deputy, she stopped and turned toward the jury box.

    "She spat at the forelady and the woman behind her," Assistant District Attorney Shelly Robins-New said. The judge asked police and court officers to escort the jurors out of the building, she said.

    Defense attorney Vincent La Russo was not available for comment.

    On Monday, the jury convicted Hill of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Nghia Guy Lu, 72, and Nairobe Dupont, 21.
    "She was larger than her victims in both weight and size," Robins-New said. "The men she picked were frail and thin."

    Common Pleas Court Judge Marvin R. Halbert deferred sentencing on two counts each of robbery and possession of an instrument of crime.

    On June 28, 1990, family members found Lu's body, with his pants down to his knees, in the basement of his home on the 1900 block of South Eighth Street. He had been struck in the head with a hammer at least 12 times, according to testimony.

    In a statement to police, Hill said the two had had intercourse twice that day, and she killed him because he offered her only $5 for sex instead of the $20 they had agreed on.

    "I reached in his pockets but he didn't have no money in there. I pulled his pants down to see if he had any money in his underwear," she said in the statement. He next reached for a toolbox, and thinking that he was going to hit her, Hill struck first.

    Testifying in her own defense, Hill said detectives had fabricated the statement and that she signed it under duress.

    Hill took two gold rings, a watch and glasses from Lu's house, Robins-New said. She received $25 from selling one of the rings, according to the prosecutor.

    In the second murder, Hill was angry when Dupont tried to pay her two caps of crack instead of $25 for allowing him to perform oral sex on her, according to the statement.

    Among other things, she took two VCRs from the house and sold them for 10 caps, according to the statement.

    When Dupont's father returned to his house on the 500 block of Emily Street after a vacation, he found his son lying on the kitchen floor naked, except for his socks. He had a burn on his chest that matched a teapot in the house, Robins-New added.

    He also found a small red purse with identification cards belonging to Donetta Hill.

    http://articles.philly.com/1992-04-0...-penalty-rings

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    COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, APPELLEE
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    DONETTA HILL, APPELLANT

    Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence entered on March 11, 1993, by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Criminal Division

    Sentence affirmed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on September 29, 1995.

    (Source: http://pa.findacase.com/research/wfr...0014.pa.htm/qx )

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    On April 23, 2012, Hill filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/pen...v02185/461630/

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    Hill is no longer listed as being on Pennsylvania's death row. However, she does remain incarcerated.

    http://inmatelocator.cor.state.pa.us...nmLocator.aspx

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    Hill was resentenced to life on March 21, 2012.

    http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/docu...aReversals.pdf

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