African American man convicted and executed in the U.S. for murder
Willie Darden
Florida Department of Corrections mugshot
Born
Willie Jasper Darden Jr.
(1933-06-01)June 1, 1933
Greene County, North Carolina, U.S.
Died
March 15, 1988(1988-03-15) (aged 54)
Florida State Prison, Raiford, Florida, U.S.
Cause of death
Execution by electrocution
Criminal status
Executed
Children
7
Conviction(s)
First degree murder Robbery
Criminal penalty
Death
Details
Victims
James Carl Turman, 54
Date
September 8, 1973
Willie Jasper Darden Jr. (June 1, 1933 – March 15, 1988) was an American man who was executed in Florida for murder during the course of a robbery. Darden's case was notable because of the 14 years that he spent on death row between his death sentence and his execution, which, at the time, was longer than the time any other inmate in the United States had spent on death row prior to their execution. He was also notable for the number of protests and amount of controversy and attention that his case attracted worldwide, as well as the unusually large number of death warrants that he lived through prior to his execution.
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with bands in which his father sometimes played, such as Leon Russell, Willie Nelson and Little Feat.[citation needed] Busey's motion picture debut was...
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