Jessie Wise was executed by the State of Missouri for the murder of Geraldine McDonald
According to court documents Jessie Wise had already spent a lengthy period of time for murder and was on parole and employed as a custodian at an apartment building. Wise would go to the apartment of Geraldine McDonald and asked for thirty dollars and when she refused he would strike her with a pipe wrench several times causing her death and then robbed her
Jessie Wise would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Jessie Wise would be executed by lethal injection on May 26 1999
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Jessie Wise Case
he first slaying got him 12 years. The second got him death. Early Wednesday, Missouri executed twice-convicted murderer Jessie Lee Wise, 46, by lethal injection, prison officials said. Eight family members of Wise’s two victims attended the execution. Wise was sentenced to life in prison but was paroled for the 1971 slaying of plastering contractor Ralph Gianino, 39. He was sentenced to death for the 1988 slaying of Geraldine McDonald, 49, who lived in the condominium where Wise worked as a maintenance man
