Jimmy L. Glass

Jimmy L. Glass

Jimmy L. Glass (c. 1962 – June 12, 1987) was an American convicted murderer, executed by the state of Louisiana. He is probably best known not for his crime, but as petitioner in the U.S. Supreme Court case "Glass v. Louisiana".

Glass' father worked in Arizona Chemical, where he was an instrument repairman. The company had a policy of hiring the children of employees as temporary summer laborers, including Glass.

Before committing a capital crime, Glass already had a criminal record. With fellow inmate Jimmy Wingo, Glass escaped from the Webster Parish, Louisiana Jail in December 1982 and, during their escape, they killed Newton Brown, 55, and his wife, Erlene Nealy Brown, 51 at their home in Dixie Inn. Glass was soon arrested, Wingo later. Both were sentenced to death in the electric chair.

Glass made a headlines in 1985 as a petitioner in a Supreme Court case. He argued that executions by electrocution are violating the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution as "cruel and unusual punishment". But the Court, by majority 5-4, found that electrocution as an authorized method of executions is constitutional.

Glass was electrocuted on June 12, 1987 at the age of 25 and became the 78th person executed in the United States since 1977. Governor Edwin W. Edwards refused commutation of the sentence. Wingo was executed four days later, on June 16, 1987.

ee also

* Capital punishment in Louisiana
* Capital punishment in the United States

ources

* [http://mindenmemories.org/Dixie%20Inn%20-%20McIntyre.htm Copies of several newspaper articles] ". Retrieved on 2007-11-12.
* [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=8&did=466 Executions in the U.S. from 1987-1990] . "Death Penalty Information Center". Retrieved on 2007-11-12.
* [http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/usexecute.htm U.S. Executions Since 1976] . "The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney". Retrieved on 2007-11-12.


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