Thomas Stevens and Christopher Burger was executed by the State of Georgia for the murder of Roger Honeycutt
According to court documents Thomas Stevens and Christopher Burger would rob a taxi driver Roger Honeycutt. The man would be sexually assaulted before he was stuck into the trunk of a vehicle and the vehicle was pushed into a lake
Thomas Stevens and Christopher Burger would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Thomas Stevens would be executed by way of the electric chair on June 29 1993
Christopher Burger would be executed by way of the electric chair on December 7 1993
Thomas Stevens Case
Former GI Thomas Dean Stevens died Monday night in Georgia’s electric chair for the 1977 murder of a Fort Stewart soldier who was moonlighting as a cab driver.
Stevens, 36, was electrocuted at 11:15 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center near Jackson.
He had originally been scheduled to die at 7 p.m. but the 11th U.S. District Court of Appeals issued a stay of execution so the case could be appealed to the Supreme Court, which refused to hear the appeal.
Stevens and co-defendant Christopher A. Burger were convicted on Sept. 26, 1978, of the murder of Roger E. Honeycutt, 25, a soldier stationed at Fort Stewart near Savannah, who was moonlighting as a cab driver. Both men were sentenced to death.
On Sept. 5, 1977, Honeycutt was kidnapped at knifepoint, robbed of $16, stripped naked, sodomized, bound with cord and forced into the trunk of his cab, which was later driven into a pond, where the victim drowned.
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