Summary of Offense:

In 1996, he was convicted of using a hammer to beat to death an elderly couple, Hiram E. Johnson and Mamie Lucille Johnson, in their home in the Antioch community on July 18, 1994. McGowan also pleaded guilty in 1996 to the murder of a technical college instructor in neighboring Escambia County just hours before the Johnsons' slayings. He received a life sentence for that crime.