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    Terry Lee Ball - North Carolina


    Terry Lee Ball


    Facts of the Crime:

    Terry Ball was indicted on October 26, 1993 for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious bodily injury, two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon, first-degree burglary, and for the first-degree murder of Laura Krantz. According to the state's evidence Reverend Tony Krantz was awakened by the doorbell at approximately four o'clock in the morning on June 17, 1993. Reverend Krantz testified that when he opened the door, he asked Terry Ball how he was doing, and Ball replied, "not so well." Terry Ball further stated, "You told me that if I ever needed somebody to talk to that you would be there." Reverend Krantz acknowledged that he had made such a statement and let Terry Ball in the house.

    Inside the house, Ball stabbed Krantz in the side, and about the same time, his wife Laura, saw what as happening and screamed, then was chased by Ball through the house. Reverend Krantz testified that he saw his wife run down the hall and that he heard a door slam and thought that his wife was safe. He then went to the telephone and dialed 911. After making the call to 911, Reverend Krantz ran out the back door and went to a neighbor's home. Laura Krantz died as a result of more than twenty stab wounds to her head and extremities. Terry Ball presented no evidence during the guilt/innocence phase of the trial.

    Ball was sentenced to death on February 3, 1994.

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    On September 6, 1996, the North Carolina Supreme Court affirmed Ball's death sentence on direct appeal.

    http://www.leagle.com/decision/1996819474SE2d345_1807

    As of August 2011, Ball's post-conviction relief petition was being litigated in Beaufort County Superior Court.

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    Death row inmate convicted in 1994 Beaufort Co. murder dies

    RALEIGH - An inmate on death row for a 1994 murder in Beaufort County has died.

    N.C. Department of Public Safety spokesperson Jerry Higgins said Terry Ball, 59, died of natural causes at Central Prison. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1994 first-degree murder of Laura Krantz. He was also convicted of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, two counts of attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon and first-degree burglary.

    Ball visited the home of Washington Rev. Tony Krantz asking for money. He later stabbed Krantz before his wife was stabbed multiple times after she awoke to the commotion.

    http://www.wcti12.com/news/local-new...dies/640514375

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