Vince RabilFormer Forsyth County prosecutor Vince Rabil, along with Branch, was one of two attorneys tasked in 1990 with convicting Blanche Taylor Moore.Feb 15, 2019
Blanche Moore is escorted from the Alamance County courthouse in Graham by a deputy and her attorney, Mitchell McEntire, after her arraignment in August 1989. Blanche Taylor Moore is escorted into a Forsyth County courtroom in this 1990 file photo taken shortly before she was convicted on murder charges.May 15, 2020
the North Carolina Correctional Institution for WomenOn January 18, 1991, the presiding judge concurred with the jury and sentenced Moore to die by lethal injection. She currently resides at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women as prisoner #0288088.
Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore (born February 17, 1933) is an American convicted murderer from Alamance County, North Carolina. She was convicted of killing her boyfriend by slipping arsenic into his food, and is suspected of killing three other people and nearly killing another in the same manner.
Georgia, 17 women have been executed in the United States. Women represent less than 1.2 percent of the 1,543 executions performed in the United States since 1976....List of women executed in the United States since 1976.DateJanuary 13, 2021NameLisa Marie MontgomeryRaceWhiteAge at execution52Age at offense3616 more columns
Moore was found guilty of murder for poisoning her boyfriend, Raymond C. Reid, with arsenic, and she was later sentenced to death. At 87, Blanche is North Carolina's oldest death row inmate, and she maintains her innocence to this day.May 17, 2020
The remaining two members are incarcerated on death row at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, located in West Livingston. Neither currently has an execution date.
As of 2021, the only places in the world that still reserve the electric chair as an option for execution are the U.S. states of Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Arkansas and Oklahoma laws provide for its use should lethal injection ever be held to be unconstitutional.
As noted by the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, “In almost every country in the world, it is illegal to execute a pregnant woman. Of the 92 countries that retain the death penalty, 83 have passed laws prohibiting the execution of pregnant women.”
Aileen WuornosWuornos in 1991BornAileen Carol PittmanFebruary 29, 1956 Rochester, Michigan, U.S.DiedOctober 9, 2002 (aged 46) Florida State Prison, Raiford, Florida, U.S.Cause of deathExecution by lethal injection15 more rows
Alvin Bud Brown found guilty of 1981 Portland murders. He was also charged with robbery and theft and was sent to prison for the attempted murder of two women. He had also raped and sodomized a 15-year-old high-school girl. After the girl identified him from a series of photographs, he was arrested and tried.
Capital punishment in Alabama is a legal penalty. The state has the highest per capita capital sentencing rate in the United States.
Blanche Moore can sometimes look through a thin strip of unpainted window and see birds flying past. It’s a glimpse of the sky that hangs over the prison chapel, outside the death row cell she’s called home for the past 16 years
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Blanche, one of seven children, was gone by then. At 19, she married James Napoleon Taylor, a furniture restorer just back from the Korean War. Taylor was a burly man, quick to become annoyed. He spent his Sundays editing tape recordings of the sermon from the Glen Hope Baptist Church, so tapes could be sent for overseas missionary work.
At age 62, he was declared to have died fom heart disease. Seven years later, James Taylor died, at age 45. Blanche told a co-worker she awoke hearing an alarm clock ringing incessantly beside her husband’s bed, and she knew he was dead. It was declared a heart attack.
Easter Sunrise Service. Before she left Kroger, a relative took her to an Easter sunrise service at the Carolina United Church of Christ, which served a neat, quiet community overlooking the textile mills on the Haw River outside Burlington. The minister, Moore, was her age, divorced, with two grown children.