Richard Tucker
Summary of Offense: Convicted of murdering a nurse in 1978 while on parole for another killing
Victim: Edna Sandefur
Time of Death: 7:23 p.m.
Manner of execution: Electric Chair
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Final Statement:
Richard Tucker
Summary of Offense: Convicted of murdering a nurse in 1978 while on parole for another killing
Victim: Edna Sandefur
Time of Death: 7:23 p.m.
Manner of execution: Electric Chair
Last Meal:
Final Statement:
May 23, 1987
GEORGIA EXECUTION IS SECOND IN WEEK
JACKSON, Ga., May 22 — Richard Tucker, who was convicted of murdering a nurse while on parole in another killing, was executed today. He was the second Georgia inmate to be put to death in a week.
Mr. Tucker, 44 years old, was electrocuted hours after the United States Supreme Court and the State Board of Pardons and Paroles refused to issue a stay of execution. He died at 7:23 P.M., said John Silers, spokesman for the Department of Corrections.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Tucker visited with a sister, lawyers and clergymen. Abducted at Hospital
Mr. Tucker was convicted in the 1978 murder of Edna Sandefur, 50 years old, of Albany, who was in Macon to visit her ill mother in a hospital.
She was kidnapped by Mr. Tucker as she left the hospital and was forced to drive to an isolated spot, where he raped her. Mr. Tucker then beat her to death with an iron pipe.
Six months earlier, Mr. Tucker had been released from prison where he had served 14 years for the stabbing death of his aunt.
In a taped confession played at his trial, Mr. Tucker said he had been drinking and smoking marijuana before Mrs. Sandefur was murdered.
In his petition to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, Mr. Tucker was described as the son of poor, alcoholic parents who often were violent and frequently in jail. Supreme Court Ruling
The petition said his mother was shot to death by a neighbor in a fight over alcohol and his father died after a drinking bout.
Wayne Snow Jr., chairman of the parole board, said the fact that Mr. Tucker was on parole for another murder at the time he killed the nurse played a large part in its decision to deny his petition.
The executions of Mr. Tucker and Joseph Mulligan, who died in the electric chair May 15, were scheduled soon after the Supreme Court ruled that the state's death penalty law was constitutional even though a study showed it was more likely to be imposed on killers of whites than on killers of blacks.
Mrs. Sandefur, Mr. Tucker's victim, was white. Mr. Mulligan's victim was black.
Another inmate, William Boyd Tucker, 31, who is unrelated to Richard Tucker, is scheduled to be executed by Georgia next Wednesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/23/us...xecuted&st=nyt
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