David Lawrie was executed by the State of Delaware for four murders
According to court documents David Lawrie was upset when he wife filed for divorce. Lawrie would go over to the home and fatally stab his estranged wife Michelle Lawrie and would douse the home in gasoline and set the home on fire killing three children: 4-year-old Fawn and 2-year-old Tabitha, and a friend’s child, 3-year-old Charles Humbertson.
David Lawrie would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
David Lawrie would be executed by lethal injection on April 23 1999
David Lawrie Case
In this case we review the sentences of death imposed on July 8, 1993, by the Superior Court on David J. Lawrie (“Lawrie”) for the first degree felony murders of Fawn and Tabitha Lawrie, two of the three children of Lawrie and Lawrie’s wife, Michelle Lawrie (“Michelle”), and a four-year-old neighborhood boy, Charles Humbertson.[1]
Lawrie deliberately set fire to the house where the victims and a survivor of the fire (Lisa Humbertson, another neighborhood child) were staying. He was charged with several counts of murder in the first degree: the intentional murder of Michelle, and the felony murders of Fawn, Tabitha, and Charles Humbertson. The felony murder counts were based on 11 Del.C. § 636(a)(2), which provides that a person is guilty of first *1339 degree murder if “[i]n the course of … a felony … he recklessly causes the death of another person.” The jury convicted Lawrie of the first degree felony murders of his two daughters and Charles Humbertson. The jury acquitted Lawrie of the intentional first degree murder of Michelle, but convicted him of the second degree murder of Michelle.[2]
https://law.justia.com/cases/delaware/supreme-court/1994/282-1993-1.html
