Jimmy Wingo and Jimmy Glass was executed by the State of Louisiana for two murders that took place during a robbery
According to court documents Jimmy Wingo and Jimmy Glass would break into a home and would murder Newton and Erline Brown.
Jimmy Glass would later tell the court that he was forced at gunpoint by Jimmy Wingo to murder Newton and Erline Brown
Jimmy Wingo and Jimmy Glass would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Jimmy Glass would be executed by way of the electric chair on June 12 1987
Jimmy Wingo would be executed by way of the electric chair on June 16 1987
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When was Jimmy Wingo executed
Jimmy Wingo was executed on June 16 1987
How was Jimmy Wingo executed
Jimmy Wingo was executed by way of the electric chair
When was Jimmy Glass executed
Jimmy Glass was executed on June 12 1987
How was Jimmy Glass executed
Jimmy Glass was executed by way of the electric chair
Jimmy Wingo Case
Jimmy Wingo, a former Boy Scout convicted of killing a married couple during a robbery, went to his death early Tuesday in Louisiana’s electric chair, the fourth man executed by the state in 10 days.
″I am an innocent man. You are murdering me this day. I do still love you all in Christ. God bless you all,″ he said before he was strapped into the electric chair.
Wingo, 35, then gave a thumbs-up gesture to the official witnesses, then turned to prison guards who strapped him into the chair and placed a canvas hood over his head.
A coroner pronounced Wingo dead at 12:17 a.m. CDT Tuesday.
A handful of capital punishment proponents were outside the state penitentiary when Wingo, 35, was executed. One, a 16-year-old who said his teen-age sister was murdered in 1984, carried a sign reading: ″Tell them about Jesus, then put them in the chair.″
Louisiana resumed executions June 7 after a 2 1/2 -year hiatus and another convicted murderer, Leslie Lowenfield, was to die in the electric chair early Wednesday for a suburban New Orleans mass murder in 1982.
Wingo met with his mother at the state penitentiary in Angola before the U.S. Supreme Court dashed his hopes for a stay of his midnight execution, voting 7-2 against hearing his appeal.
Wingo held up well even after the high court’s ruling, saying he still had hopes the governor might intervene, ″but he said he’s ready if he (the governor) doesn’t,″ Warden Hilton Butler said.
Jimmy Glass, who was convicted along with Wingo, was electrocuted for the crime Friday.
They were found guilty of killing Newt Brown, 55, and Erlene Brown, 51, in their house in rural Dixie Inn on Christmas Eve, 1982, after Glass and Wingo escaped from the Webster Parish Jail.
Wingo said from the time he was arrested that he stayed outside the Browns’ house while Glass went in.
The basis of Wingo’s appeal to the Supreme Court was a videotape of prosecution witness Gwen Hill, Wingo’s girlfriend and the mother of one of his children. She said her testimony was fed to her by a sheriff’s deputy who threatened her with a 10-year prison term.
On Friday, the state Pardon Board watched the videotape but refused to recommend a life sentence rather than death for Wingo.
Gov. Edwin Edwards has said he won’t intervene in the cases of Louisiana’s 40 death row inmates unless evidence can be shown of a condemned prisoner’s innocence.