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Arizona Death Row Chain Gang Killing
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1997, page 5
PLN has previously reported how the death row chain gang in Arizona has resulted in numerous incidents of violence, including prisoners being wounded by shotgun blasts to quell fighting.
Filed under:
Prison Industries,
Chain Gangs,
Escapes,
Excessive Force,
Shootings,
Death Row.
Location:
Arizona.
On July 9, 1997, the violence took a bizarre and deadly turn. On that date, Rebecca Lynn Thornton, 38, who had ...
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