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    Brandon Leon Basham - Federal Death Row


    Alice Donovan


    Brandon Leon Basham


    Summary of Offense:

    In 2004, Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks were sentenced to death in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of South Carolinian Alice Donovan, 44, following Fulks' escape from a Kentucky jail.

    For more on Fulks: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...eral-Death-Row

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    Man facing death for SC murder wants new trial

    A man on federal death row for killing women in South Carolina and West Virginia says he wants his sentence and conviction vacated.

    Lawyers argue in court documents filed Tuesday that original attorneys for 29-year-old Brandon Basham made mistakes during his 2004 trial.

    Basham and Chadrick Fulks were convicted of killing 19-year-old Marshall University student Samantha Burns and 44-year-old Alice Donovan of Galivants Ferry after they escaped from a Kentucky jail in November 2002.

    A year ago, Basham asked that he be allowed to drop any remaining appeals and be executed. Basham had also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his death sentence because of a juror's misconduct. But the justices turned down that request without comment.

    Donovan's remains were found last year. Burns' body has never been found.

    http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/06/01...#ixzz1O3nx3z7T

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    After 9 Years, Remains of Area Woman Still Missing

    After disappearing nine years ago, the body of a Marshall University student who went missing Nov. 11, 2002 has never been found.

    Samantha Burns, 19, was last seen at the Huntington Mall, where she went to pick up her paycheck from J. C. Penney. Burns, a West Hamlin native, later called her mother from an area apartment complex to say she was coming home.

    She never did.

    After her disappearance, the West Virginia State Police found the car Burns was driving after it was set on fire in a remote part of Wayne County near the Cabell-Wayne county line.

    Authorities later determined Burns had been murdered by two escaped convicts on a multi-state crime spree: Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks.

    Basham and Fulks escaped from the Hopkins County Detention Center in Madisonville, Ky., on Nov. 4, 2002.

    In 2004, both were convicted in the kidnapping and murder of Alice Donovan, 44, a mother of two who disappeared in South Carolina on Nov. 14, 2002.

    Both men pleaded guilty to the kidnapping and murder of Burns – the first of their victims murdered – in 2005.

    Today, Basham and Fulks are on death row at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind.

    Fulks wrote a letter to the media in 2008 in which he stated crystal meth and crack cocaine contributed to his and Basham's 17-day crime spree, which also included kidnapping a Kentucky man and leaving him tied to a tree in southern Indiana.

    Following information Fulks sent about their whereabouts, Donovan's remains were found and identified in 2009, but Burns' remain missing.

    Also in 2009, a search was organized for Burns' body with the help of Community United Effort – the same organization who helped find Donovan's body in South Carolina. But after a week, the search was called off.

    http://www.wowktv.com/story/16015313...till-not-found

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    On May 30, 2012, the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals seems to have denied Basham's habeas petition. On June 25, 2012, a rehearing en banc was denied.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/12-6446.htm

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Basham's petition for a writ of certiorari was DENIED.

    Linked with 12A335
    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
    Case Nos.: (12-2)
    Decision Date: May 30, 2012
    Rehearing Denied: June 25, 2012

    Appeals exhausted
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    Chances of getting a date on the calendar??

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    Slim to none!
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    An execution date cannot be set yet because lethal-injection litigation has been dragging on and on in the District of Columbia Federal District Court since 2006. My suspicion is that the Obama Administration has been none too proactive in moving things forward and is happy to let things languish so that President Obama won't be faced with having to sign off on an actual execution.

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    On March 25, 2015, oral argument regarding Basham's apparent subsequent habeas petition will be heard before a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

    http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/calend...r242015ric.pdf

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    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. BRANDON LEON BASHAM

    In today's opinions, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals AFFIRMED the district court's DENIAL of Basham's petition of habeas corpus relief.
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