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    Davy Gene Stephens - North Carolina

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    Davy Gene Stephens


    Summary of Offense:

    The defendant was indicted on 13 February 1995 for three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury; on 20 March 1995, he was indicted for an additional count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Defendant was tried capitally to a jury at the 27 November 1995 Criminal Session of Superior Court, Johnston County, Judge Narley L. Cashwell presiding. The jury found defendant guilty of all charges. Following a capital sentencing proceeding, the jury recommended sentences of death as to each murder conviction. On 20 December 1995, the trial court sentenced defendant to three separate sentences of death, one for each of the three convictions for first-degree murder; to a term of sixty-three to eighty-five months' imprisonment on each of the two convictions for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury; and to a term of twenty-five to thirty-nine months' imprisonment on the conviction for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.

    At trial, the State presented evidence tending to show that on the evening of 20 January 1995, defendant and his accomplice, William Barrow, had dinner together and shared a bottle of Everclear and some whisky. The following morning, at approximately 2:00 a.m., defendant and Barrow drove to the Johnston County Grill Road home of Lynn Wright, a reputed drug dealer. Upon arrival, defendant and Barrow went straight to Wright's bedroom and shot him six times, killing him. Defendant and Barrow then separated in the house, and Barrow walked onto the porch and shot Antwon Jenkins in the head, killing him. Barrow then attempted to kill James White, but the bullet only grazed the side of White's face. Defendant entered the living room and attempted to shoot eighty-three-year-old Kenneth Farmer in the head, but the shot only hit Farmer in the arm as he threw his hand up. Defendant next tried to shoot John Wright but apparently ran out of bullets. Defendant and Barrow then left the Grill Road home but returned shortly thereafter. At this time, defendant shot and killed Michael Kent Jones, and Barrow seriously injured June Bates with gunshot wounds to her back and arm. Bates escaped and called for help from a nearby house.

    When deputies arrived at the Grill Road home on 21 January 1995, they found a black man lying on the porch, dying from gunshot wounds to his head. The officers found four fired cartridge cases, caliber 38 Special, in a water basin in the front room. In the first bedroom, the officers found another black man, Lynn Wright, lying on the floor surrounded by blood and crack cocaine. Behind the house, the officers found another victim, Kenneth Farmer, who had been shot in the left arm. Farmer was able to identify one of the shooters as defendant Davy Stephens because Stephens had been to the house on several previous occasions. Farmer later picked Stephens out of a police photographic lineup. Following a lead, officers found defendant hiding in the attic of a house occupied by his girlfriend, and he was apprehended. The officers also found a 38 Special revolver near defendant in the attic. The State offered testimony from three medical examiners who concluded that Lynn Wright, Antwon Jenkins and Michael Kent Jones all died of gunshot wounds. Special Agent Eugene Bishop gave a ballistic report on the 38 Special revolver found with the defendant at the time of his arrest and determined that four cartridge casings found in the water basin at the Grill Road house were fired by this 38 Special. Bishop also tested a bullet found in the clothes of June Bates and concluded this bullet bore rifling characteristics similar to a 357 Magnum.

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    Stephens has exhausted appeals and was denied certiorari by the US Supreme Court on January 11, 2010.

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    Stephens died of natural causes on August 9, 2017.

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