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unusual facts about second degree murder



Al Rooney

Rooney was one of the first gang leaders to be imprisoned and, with his conviction of second degree murder in 1911, is considered one of the last generation gang captains of the "Gangs of New York" period.


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Avalanche

The mayor of Chamonix was convicted of second-degree murder for not evacuating the area, but received a suspended sentence.

Felicia Pearson

She wrote a memoir titled Grace After Midnight detailing her troubled childhood and time spent in prison for second-degree murder.

Grace After Midnight

The book chronicles Pearson's life in East Baltimore, including her birth as a three-pound crack baby, her placement into foster care and her eight-year prison sentence in Jessup, Maryland, from second-degree murder charges.

Indiana Women's Prison

Clara Green Gibson Carl was convicted in June 1922 of second-degree murder in the poisoning death of her second husband, Frank Carl.

Lionel Tate

Tate's mother, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, and the defense had turned down a plea bargain arrangement which would have allowed Tate to serve a three-year term for second-degree murder in a youth facility followed by 10 years' probation but instead, his mother insisted on going to trial in hopes of an acquittal.