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    William Emmett LeCroy, Jr. - Federal Execution - September 22, 2020


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    Summary of Offense:

    A jury sentenced LeCroy to death in the 2001 carjacking and murder of JoAnn Tiesler of Gilmer County, Georgia. Attorneys for LeCroy argued that the murder took place inside the victim's house, and thus did not fall under the 1994 federal death penalty statute.

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    On March 2, 2006, the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld LeCroy's death sentence on direct appeal.

    http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal...597/920060302/

    On April 23, 2007, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/06-7877.htm

    On April 22, 2008, LeCroy filed a motion for post-conviction relief in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/geo...v00083/150768/

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    William Emmett LeCroy, Jr. v. USA

    Court upholds federal death sentence

    The federal appeals court in Atlanta on Wednesday upheld the death sentence imposed against a man who raped and killed a nurse practitioner after she returned to her North Georgia home from a shopping trip with her fiance.

    The court rejected claims raised by William Emmett LeCroy Jr., who sits on death row for the 2001 fatal carjacking of 30-year-old Joann Tiesler. LeCroy’s death sentence was the second capital sentence obtained by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta since Congress reinstated the death penalty for federal crimes in 1988.

    http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/c...entence/ncpyq/
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    On March 7, 2014, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit DENIED LeCroy's petition for en banc rehearing.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/14-5536.htm

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    What circumstances make this a Federal case?

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    I wondered about this too, maybe. Here's what I found:

    The defendant/appellant, William Emmett LeCroy, Jr. ("LeCroy") was convicted in the Federal District Court in the Northern District of Georgia of taking a motor vehicle from a person, Joann Lee Tiesler, by force and violence resulting in her death, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119(3) ("carjacking"). After the penalty phase, the jury returned a death sentence.

    http://www.ecases.us/case/ca11/77274...mett-lecroy-jr

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    Thanks, mostlyclassics! Very helpful.

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review LeCroy's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    Case Nos.: (12-15132)
    Decision Date: January 15, 2014
    Rehearing Denied: March 7, 2014

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/14-5536.htm

    Theoretically, LeCroy's appeals are now exhausted. Unfortunately, litigation over the federal government's lethal-injection protocol has continued to be bogged down in the District of Columbia District Court since 2006.

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    Article for more detail

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    July 26, 2019

    The government says it will resume executions. These are the three Georgia men on federal death row.

    Jonathan Raymond
    11 Alive

    The federal government said on Thursday that it would begin resuming executions this year, the first that would occur since 2003.

    The Department of Justice said five men would be executed in December, all convicted in child murder cases.

    There are 55 other federal prisoners with a death sentence, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, and three of them are from Georgia.

    These are their stories:

    William LeCroy, Jr.: A Marietta native, LeCroy served 10 years in federal prison for offenses that included a statutory rape conviction in a case in which the victim was his 13-year-old stepsister and a string of Cobb County burglaries in 1990-91.

    Court documents say that when he was arrested in March 1991, they found notes in his car that included phrases like “be ruthless and famous” and “rape rob and pillage.”

    After his August 2001 release, he moved back in with his mother and stepfather in Blue Ridge.

    A 2014 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling says that months later, in October that year, he was left alone at the family’s cabin for the weekend.

    On a Sunday night, he allegedly broke into the home of Joann Tiesler through a bedroom window while the woman was out. He was armed with a shotgun, knife and plastic cable ties.

    According to the court, as Tiesler entered her home, LeCroy attacked her from behind, striking her in the head with the butt of his shotgun and then tying her hands behind her back.

    He then raped her and “strangled her with an electrical cord, slashed her throat with his knife, and stabbed her five times in the back before wiping the knife off on her shirt.”

    He was captured two days later, attempting to cross the border from Minnesota to Canada in Tiesler’s car.

    According the court, a note was found in the car written on the back of a map.

    It said: “Please please please forgive me Joanne [sic]. You were an angel and I killed you. Now I have to live with that and I can never go home. I am a vagabond and doomed to hell.”

    He later said during a psychiatric evaluation that he had come to believe Tiesler was in fact a childhood babysitter he knew as “Tinkerbell” who had molested him.

    The doctor to whom he told this concluded he “could not present an affirmative defense of not guilty by reason of insanity” and his lawyers chose not to directly pursue an insanity defense. The 11th Circuit rejected LeCroy’s appeal that this was an incompetent defense.

    https://www.11alive.com/article/news...1-d58bc8a282e6
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    Executions Scheduled for Two Federal Inmates

    Attorney General William P. Barr today directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions of two federal death-row inmates who were each convicted of murder.

    William Emmett LeCroy raped and murdered Joann Lee Tiesler, a 30-year-old nurse, in 2001. LeCroy had previously served 10 years in federal and state prison for, among other crimes, aggravated assault, burglary, child molestation, and statutory rape. After his release to supervised probation, LeCroy began planning to flee the country. In furtherance of that plan, LeCroy broke into Tiesler’s home in Gilmer County, Georgia. Once she returned home, LeCroy attacked her, bound her hands behind her back, strangled her with an electrical cord, and raped her. Then he slashed her throat with a knife and stabbed her in the back five times. LeCroy then stole Tiesler’s vehicle and drove to the Canadian border, where he was arrested. In March 2004, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia found LeCroy guilty of carjacking resulting in death and unanimously recommended a sentence of death. His conviction and sentence were affirmed on appeal, and his requests for collateral relief were rejected by every court that considered them. LeCroy’s execution is scheduled for Sept. 22, 2020.

    Christopher Andre Vialva murdered youth ministers Todd and Stacie Bagley in 1999. While stopping to use a payphone in Killeen, Texas, Todd Bagley agreed to give a ride to Vialva and two of his accomplices. In the victims’ car, Vialva pulled out a gun, forced the Bagleys into the trunk, and drove the vehicle for several hours, stopping at ATMs to withdraw money from the couple’s bank account and trying to pawn Stacie Bagley’s wedding ring. While locked in the trunk, the couple spoke with their abductors about God and pleaded for their lives. Vialva eventually parked at a remote site on the Fort Hood, Texas, military reservation, where an accomplice doused the car with lighter fluid as the couple sang and prayed. Vialva then shot Todd Bagley in the head, killing him instantly, and shot Stacie Bagley in the face, knocking her unconscious and leaving her to die of smoke inhalation after an accomplice set the car on fire. In June 2000, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas found Vialva guilty of, among other offenses, two counts of murder within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States and unanimously recommended two death sentences. His convictions and sentences were affirmed on appeal, and his requests for collateral relief were rejected by every court that considered them. Vialva’s execution is scheduled for Sept. 24, 2020.

    The executions will take place at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/execu...ederal-inmates

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