Ernest Edward Dykes
Facts of the Crime:
Ernest Dykes, then 36, was sentenced to death in Alameda County Superior Court on November 3, 1995 for the first-degree murder of nine-year-old Lance Clark on July 26, 1993. Dykes was also convicted of the attempted murder of the boy's 70-year-old grandmother, Bernice Clark, who owned the Oakland apartment building where Dykes lived with his mother. Dykes, who was 20 at the time, shot the victims in Bernice Clark's car in the apartment building parking lot while attempting to steal her wallet.
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