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


    JoAnn Tiesler





    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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