Oct. 17, 2025

"DIDDY'S PRISON FUTURE, MISSISSIPPI EXECUTION & PREGNANT DRUNK DRIVER GETS 30 YEARS"

"DIDDY'S PRISON FUTURE, MISSISSIPPI EXECUTION & PREGNANT DRUNK DRIVER GETS 30 YEARS"

Reid Carter covers Diddy's strict post-release conditions - five years supervised probation, drug testing, mental health treatment, domestic violence programs, probation officer can search him anytime. Begging to serve sentence at low-level New Jersey prison instead of Brooklyn's MDC. Charles Crawford executed Wednesday after 30 years on death row for raping and murdering college student Kristy Ray - final words: "Kiss my ass." Ashley Monroe sentenced to 30-60 years for drunk driving crash that killed two men, injured 14 including eight children. BAC nearly 2.5 times legal limit, pregnant with fifth child, fled the scene.

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Caalarogashark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter. Friday, October seventeenth,

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twenty twenty five. Sean Diddy Combs learned his post prison

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reality this week. Court documents reveal that after his four

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year sentence ends in late twenty twenty eight or early

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twenty twenty nine, he faces five years of supervised release,

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regular meetings with a probation officer, random drug tests, mental

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health treatment, domestic violence programs. His probation officer can drop

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in any time, search his property, residents, vehicle, computers, phones,

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no warrant needed, must work thirty hours a week. Can't

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own firearms, can't associate with criminals. The rap mogul who

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once boasted a billion dollar fortune will spend five years

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under government's supervision. Meanwhile, he's begging the judge to transfer

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him from Brooklyn Yann's Metropolitan Detention Center to a low

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level New Jersey prison. Wants access to drug treatment programs.

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His lawyer says it's for rehabilitation. Prison consultants say he

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doesn't qualify. Sex offenders can't get into those programs. Wednesday,

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Charles Crawford was executed in Mississippi after thirty years on

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death Row convicted of raping and murdering twenty year old

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college student Christy Ray in nineteen ninety three. Final statement

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He's at peace, He'll be in heaven. Final words to

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the warden. Different story. The execution took fourteen minutes, and

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Ashley Monroe, thirty six, pregnant with her fifth child, was

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sentenced Wednesday to thirty to sixty years for a drunk

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driving crash that killed two men and injured fourteen family members,

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including eight children. Bac of point one nine five, nearly

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two and a half times the legal limit, fled the

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scene with a nearly empty pint of Crown Royal in

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her purse. Made one victim's wife a twenty eight year

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old widow. Another victim's wife had her leg amputated. I'm reed, Carter.

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One wrapper facing supervised release. One murderer executed, one drunk

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driver who destroyed multiple families. This is celebrity Trials. Sean

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Diddycombs is currently at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn,

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special housing unit notorious for violence, poor conditions, isolation. He's

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been there since September twenty twenty four. Calls it inhumane,

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says there's no clean drinking water, fear someone might murder him.

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Lives in a cramped, windowless cell. He was sentenced to

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four years after being convicted on two counts of transportation

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for prostitution, with time served thirteen months already. He'll be

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released November twenty twenty eight, three years from now. Then

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the real restrictions begin. Wednesday, court documents revealed Ditty's post

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release conditions five years of supervised release, that standard for

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federal convictions, but the specific conditions paint a picture of

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a very different life than the one Diddy lived before.

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First regular meetings with his probation officer, not occasional check ins,

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regular mandatory meetings. Miss one, that's a violation, back to prison.

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Second drug testing within fifteen days of release, didt He

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must take a drug test, then two periodic tests after that.

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Random scheduling could be tomorrow, could be next month. Must

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pass every test. Fail once, that's a violation did He

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confessed in court that his time in custody has been

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the first in twenty five years he's been sober. I

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lost my way, I got lost in my journey, lost

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in the drugs and the excess, he said. Now he'll

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be tested to ensure he stays sober for five years

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post release. Third treatment programs did he must participate in

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an outpatient mental health treatment program, an approved domestic violence program,

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and drug testing is part of an outpatient program, not optional.

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Mandatory attendance skip sessions, that's a violation. Fourth Probation officer access.

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This is the big one. Ditty's probation officer can drop

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in on him at any time, no notice, no warrant needed,

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Just show up and demand access to his home, his vehicle,

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his property. Can search him personally, can search his papers, computers,

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cell phones, all without reasonable suspicion, just random checks to

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ensure compliance. That only requires a warrant if there's reasonable

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suspicion he violated release conditions. Otherwise it's open access. The

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government can walk into Ditty's life whenever they want for

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five years. Fifth residence approval did He must live at

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a location approved by the probation department. He can't just

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move into his sixty one point five million dollar Beverly

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Hills mansion or his forty eight point five million dollar

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Miami compound. The Probation office has to approve it. They

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could say no, too luxurious, not appropriate for supervision. Live

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where we tell you. Sixth work requirement? Did he must

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work at least thirty hours a week For a man

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with an estimated four hundred million dollar fortune. That seems absurd,

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but its standard conditions. Can't just live off wealth, must

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maintain employment, must prove your working Seventh No firearms, ammunition,

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destructive devices, or dangerous weapons. Did He can't own a gun,

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can't possess ammunition, can't have access to weapons. For someone

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who lived a lifestyle involving security and protection, that's a

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significant restriction. Eighth, No association with criminals? Did He cannot

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communicate with anyone involved in criminal activity? Given his career

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in hip hop, given his connections, given his history, that's complicated.

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Who counts as involved in criminal activity? Anyone with a record,

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anyone under investigation. The probation officer decides these conditions aren't suggestions,

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their requirements violate any of them. Did he goes back

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to prison to serve additional time. The supervised release isn't

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a gift, It's an extension of his sentence in the

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community instead of a cell. And did he knows his

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current situation could be worse? He's begging Judge Aaron Subramanian

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to transfer him from MDC Brooklyn to FCI Fort Dix

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in New Jersey low security prison, about four thousand inmates

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compared to MDC's one two hundred and fifty. Didty's lawyers

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filed a notice Monday requesting the change. The reasoning FCI

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Fort Dix offers a residential drug abuse Treatment program RDAP

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nine months long. Prisoners live in a designated section, spend

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days in treatment activities and work programs. Successful completion can

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reduce sentences by up to one year. Ditty's lawyer wrote

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the transfer would allow him to maximize family visitation and

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rehabilitative efforts to tackle drug abuse issues. Sounds good, write,

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get treatment, reduce sentence, be closer to family. Except there's

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a problem. Prison consultant Sam Mangle told The Daily Mail

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that Ditty doesn't qualify for URDAP. People with sex charges

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like Ditty cannot get into that program. It is common

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knowledge that anybody with a public safety factor with a

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sex charge is not eligible for r DAP. Sex offenders

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are excluded from the program that reduces sentences. Didty could

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take a non residential drug abuse treatment program three months

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no sentence reduction, but that's not what his lawyers requested.

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Mangle also said FCI Fort Dix is one of the

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worst in the BP Bureau of Prisons and that Ditty

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would likely be disqualified from the minimum security prison camp.

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Within the facility, it is generally not a place where

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the BOP places violent offenders. So why are Ditty's lawyers

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requesting it. Either they don't know he's ineligible, unlikely they're

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good attorneys, or they're hoping for a waiver like Gislaine

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Maxwell got. The Jeffrey Epstein associate was moved to a

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minimum security camp despite sex trafficking charges, the only waiver

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Mangle knows of in BOP history. Ditty wants out of

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MDC Brooklyn. Understandable the place is notorious, but his options

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are limited. FCI Fort Dix might not accept him. Other

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prisons might be worse, and regardless of where he serves

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his sentence, those post release conditions remain the same. November

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twenty twenty eight, Ditty walks out of prison, fifty eight

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years old, no longer a billionaire, fortune estimated at four

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hundred million dollars, but legal fees and restitution will reduce that.

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His Beverly Hills mansion listed for sixty one point five

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million dollars hasn't sold. His Miami compound was raided by

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Feds in March twenty twenty four. They seized one thousand

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bottles of baby oil, among other evidence. His reputation destroyed

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his career. Over his freedom restricted by five years of

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supervised release with conditions that prevent him from living anything

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close to his former lifestyle. Judge Subramanian ordered Ditty to

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pay a five hundred thousand dollars fine on top of

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his sentence. Most recently, the judge denied Ditty's request to

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throw out his conviction or grant a new trial, denied

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his requests for bail repeatedly. No indication the judge will

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grant the transfer to New Jersey. Ditty's reality three more

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years in prison, likely at MDC Brooklyn, then five years

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of supervised release with drug testing, probation checks, residence restrictions,

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work requirements, no firearms, no criminal associates, a very long

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fall from private jets and freak off parties. That's Diddy's future,

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not the glamorous life he once lived, the consequences of

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his actions catching up to him more in a moment Wednesday,

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six oh one pm Mississippi State Penitentiary and parchment. Charles Crawford,

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fifty nine years old, was strapped to a gurney in

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the execution chamber thirty years on death row, ending his

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final statement to my family, I love you, I'm at peace.

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I've got God's peace. I'll be in heaven to the

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victim's family, true closure and true peace. You cannot reach

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that without God. Thank you God for giving me the

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peace that I have. Then he closed his eyes. The

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execution began. The first drug of the three drug protocol

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entered his veins. Crawford swallowed. Two minutes later, his chest

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moved rhythmically. At six o six pm, an unidentified man

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in a baseball cap and sunglasses entered to conduct a

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consciousness check, performed a sternal rub, declared, in my professional opinion,

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this man is unconscious. For four minutes, Crawford's mouth moved slightly,

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appeared to quiver once. Then at six eleven pm, all

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movements stopped. He was pronounced dead at six fifteen pm,

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fourteen minutes total. His final words to the warden before

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the execution weren't as peaceful. Different sources report different versions,

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but the message was clear. Crawford wasn't as ready to

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meet God as his final statement suggested. January twenty ninth,

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nineteen ninety three, Crawford abducted Christy Ray from her parents

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home in Tip County, Mississippi. Christy was twenty years old

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student at Northeast Mississippi Community College. Her mother came home

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and found Christie's car gone, a handwritten ransom note left

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on the table. Crawford was out on bond at the time,

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awaiting trial on separate aggravated assault and rape charges. Days

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away from trial for a nineteen ninety one attack where

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he allegedly raped a seventeen year old girl and hit

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her friend with a hammer, he was arrested the next day.

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Claimed he was returning from a hunting trip, told authorities

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he blacked out and didn't remember killing Christie. Her body

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was found she'd been raped and murdered. Nineteen ninety four,

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Crawford was convicted of murder, rape, and abduction. The jury

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considered his prior rape conviction and aggravating circumstance, paving the

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way for the death sentence. He was also convicted in

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separate trials for the nineteen ninety one rape and hammer attack.

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Despite claiming he didn't remember those crimes either. The blackout

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defense didn't work. Juries found him guilty, judge sentenced him

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to death. Crawford spent thirty years appealing. Wednesday morning, hours

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before execution, Crawford's attorneys filed an emergency motion seeking a stay,

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argued his nineteen ninety four conviction violated constitutional rights because

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his defense team conceded guilt against his wishes. Mississippi's Special

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Assistant Attorney General, Lodonna Holland rejected the claim, called it

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a last minute attempt to delay the lawful execution. The

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United States Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal Wednesday morning,

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but Justice Sonya Sodomeyer wrote a dissent joined by Justices

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Elena Kagan and Katanji Brown. Jackson Sodo Mayer noted a

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twenty eighteen Supreme Court ruling held that lawyers cannot override

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a defendant's explicit decision not to admit guilt at trial.

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Under that ruling, Crawford could have proven his sixth Amendment

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rights were violated and would like to be entitled to

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a new trial. But Crawford's conviction became final before twenty eighteen.

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The Court has not squarely resolved whether that ruling is retroactive.

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The court refuses to resolve that question, even though a

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man's life is in the balance, Soda Mayo wrote, translation,

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Crawford might have a legitimate legal argument, but because his

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conviction was before the twenty eighteen ruling, the court won't

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apply it retroactively. He loses on a technicality of timing.

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That dissent didn't stop the execution. Crawford spent his last

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day visiting family and a minister ate. His final meal

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double cheeseburger, french fries, peach cobbler, chocolate ice cream, standard

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American comfort food for a man about to die. Mark McClure,

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Regional superintendent for Mississippi Department of Corrections, said Crawford was

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relaxed and ready to face today. After the execution, McClure said,

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it went as well as can be expected with this situation.

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We just take everybody in the victim's family in our prayers.

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Following the execution, the Mississippi Office of Capital Post Conviction

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Council released a statement saying Crawford was executed without receiving

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a fair trial, despite a legal system that failed him.

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Charles Crawford Chuck spent every day in prison trying to

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be the best person, family member, friend, and Christian he

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could be. Chrissy Nobile, director of the office, characterized Crawford

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as a respected, uplifting presence on death row. Said he

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worked inside the prison and advocated for other inmates. That

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portrayal conflicts with the facts. Crawford raped and murdered a

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twenty year old college student while out on bond for

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raping a seventeen year old and attacking her friend with

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a hammer. He was a serial predator who claimed blackouts

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prevented him from remembering his crimes convenient memory loss. Crawford's

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execution was the second in Mississippi this year, the third

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execution in two days in the US. Tuesday saw executions

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in Florida and Missouri. Total of thirty eight men executed

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by court order so far in twenty twenty five. Six

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more executions scheduled this year next Richard Jerf convicted of

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killing four members of a family in Arizona over thirty

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years ago. Christy Ray's family attended the execution watched Crawford

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die got the justice they'd waited thirty years to see, But,

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as one family member said, afterward. True closure and true

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peace doesn't come from watching someone die. It comes from

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living with the loss every day and finding a way forward.

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Charles Crawford is dead. Christy Ray is still dead. Her

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family still lives with that loss. The execution didn't bring

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her back. It just meant Crawford finally faced consequences for

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what he did in nineteen ninety three. More in a

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moment Wednesday afternoon, Saint John's Michigan, Ashley Marie Monroe, thirty

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six years old, stood before Judge Corey E. Barkman for sentencing.

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Pregnant with her fifth child when she committed the crime,

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now facing thirty to sixty years in prison. May eighteenth,

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twenty twenty four, Monroe was driving on a rural road

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outside Lancing, bac of point one ninety five, nearly two

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and a half times the legal limit of point zero

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eight on prescription medication behind the wheel, despite being profoundly intoxicated.

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A family was walking along the road. Jonathan Esh thirty,

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married paramedic for Lancing Township, his brother in law Daniel

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Harris forty two, married father of four, Daniel's wife Jessica,

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and their five year old son fourteen total family members,

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including eight children half under age eight. Monroe's vehicle plowed

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into them, killed Jonathan instantly, killed, Daniel instantly, injured all

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fourteen others. Jessica Harris, who lost her husband, also lost

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her leg had to be amputated due to injuries from

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the crash. Monroe fled the scene, but a Sheriff's deputy

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responding to the crash spotted her vehicle heading in the

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opposite direction, cracked windshield, turned around, initiated a stop, arrested

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her within minutes. Deputies found a nearly empty pint of

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Crown Royal in her purse two prescription pill bottles in

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her car. Monroe was drunk, medicated, and pregnant, and chose

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to drive anyway. Wednesday's sentencing hearing was emotional. Family members

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delivered harrowing victim impact statements. Erica Glattz, Jonathan Esh's widow,

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You made me a twenty eight year old widow in

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a bed that John and I once shared. I wake

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up alone in a home once filled with his laughter.

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I come home to violence. D Esh lost both her

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son Jonathan and her son in law Daniel in the crash.

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Addressed Monroe directly, make no mistake What you did was murder.

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You are a murderer. One day you will walk out

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of prison. My sentence only ends when I meet my

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son in heaven. That statement captures the fundamental injustice. Monroe

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gets thirty to sixty years, eligible for parole in twenty

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fifty four. She'll be in her sixties, maybe seventies, but

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she'll eventually walk free. D Esch's sentence is life. She'll

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never see her son again, never have another conversation with him,

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never watch him grow old. Monroe pleaded no contest to

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nine felonies, one count of second degree murder, eight counts

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of operating while intoxicated causing serious injury. As part of

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the plea deal, other charges, including fleeing the scene, were dismissed.

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Prosecutor Deborah Martinez asked for the sixty year maximum, pointed

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to Munroe's conscious choice to drive while severely intoxicated and

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her decision to flee. That's the key conscious choice. Monroe

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knew she was drunk, knew she was on medication, knew

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she was pregnant, chose to drive anyway, then chose to

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flee after killing two people and injuring fourteen. Defense attorney

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Edward Zany referred the court to a sentencing memorandum detailing

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Monroe's remorse, but Monroe declined to address the court before sentencing.

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Didn't apologize, didn't explain, didn't take responsibility publicly, just stood

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silent while the judge imposed sentence. Judge Barkman sentenced Monroe

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to thirty to sixty years, bound by the Plea agreement

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establishing a thirty year minimum. Monroe will be eligible for

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parole in twenty fifty four. She was given credit for

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five hundred and fifteen days already served the time since

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her arrest in May twenty twenty four. Think about what

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Monroe destroyed. Two men dead. Jonathan esh was a paramedic,

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spent his career saving lives, married, had a future gone.

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Daniel Harris was a father of four married Those four

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children lost their father. His wife, Jessica lost her husband

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and her leg has to raise four kids alone while

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learning to live with a prosthetic. Eight children under age

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eight witnessed the crash or were injured in it. Those

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kids will remember that day forever. The trauma of being

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hit by a car, seeing family members injured or killed.

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That's lifelong psychological damage. And Monroe was pregnant with her

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fifth child when she chose to drive drunk. What kind

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of judgment leads someone to risk not only their own

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life and their unborn child's life, but everyone else on

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the road. She already had four children, made the conscious

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choice to endanger all of them, plus the one She

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was carrying. Nearly empty Crown Royal in her purse tells

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the story. She'd been drinking heavily, not just one drink,

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enough to reach a bac ofero point one ninety five

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plus prescription medication. That combination is profoundly impairing. She couldn't

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walk straight, couldn't think clearly, couldn't react to a family

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walking on the side of the road, and her first

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instinct after the crash flee, not stop and help, not

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call nine one one, not check if anyone survived, Just

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drive away with a cracked windshield and blood on her conscience.

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If that deputy hadn't spotted her and turned around, Monroe

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might have made it home, might have claimed someone stole

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her car, might have hidden the Crown Royal bottle, might

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have avoided responsibility entirely. But she was caught within minutes.

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The evidence against her was overwhelming, Monroe will serve at

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minimum thirty years, more likely forty or fifty before parole

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is granted. She'll be released as an elderly woman. Her

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children will have grown up without her. Her fifth child,

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the one she was pregnant with during the crash, will

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be in their thirties before Monroe is free. That's justice,

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but it doesn't bring Jonathan esh or Daniel Harris back,

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doesn't restore Jessica Harris's leg doesn't erase the trauma those

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eight children experienced. Doesn't give Erica Glattz her husband back,

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or d esch her son and son in law. Ashley

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Monroe chose to drive drunk and medicated while pregnant. That

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choice killed two people, injured fourteen, and destroyed multiple families.

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Now she'll spend decades in prison living with those consequences.

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That's celebrity trials for Friday, October seventeenth, twenty twenty five.

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Did he face his five years of supervised release after

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his four year sentence ends in twenty twenty eight, drug testing,

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mental health treatment, domestic violence programs. Probation officer can search

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him any time, must work thirty hours a week, no firearms,

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no criminal associates. Meanwhile, he's begging to transfer from Brooklyn's

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MDC to a New Jersey prison for drug treatment, but

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prison consultants say sex offenders don't qualify for the program

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he wants. Charles Crawford executed Wednesday after thirty years on

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death row for raping and murdering twenty year old Christy Ray.

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Final statement He's at peace, going to heaven. Final words

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to the warden less peaceful. Supreme Court declined his appeal

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despite Justice Sodomayer's descent. The execution took fourteen minutes. Ashley

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Monroe sentenced to thirty to sixty years for drunk driving

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crash that killed two men and injured fourteen family members.

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Bac nearly two and a half times legal limit on

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prescription medication, pregnant with her fifth child, fled the scene

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with an empty Crown Royal bottle in her purse. Made

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a twenty eight year old woman a widow. Another victim's

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wife lost her leg eligible for parole. Twenty fifty four.

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I'm Reid Carter. One rapper learning his post prison restrictions.

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One murderer executed, one drunk driver who destroyed families. Before

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you go this weekend, We're presenting a special two part

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series on John Wayne Gasey, timed with Peacock's new series

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Devil in Disguise, Tomorrow Saturday. Part one. The Killer Clown

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Gaysey's double life as successful contractor and Democratic precinct captain

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by day serial killer by night. How he murdered at

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least thirty three teenage boys between nineteen seventy two and

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nineteen seventy eight, The crawl space under his house where

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he buried twenty nine bodies, and the disappearance of fifteen

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year old Robert Peaste that finally exposed him. Sunday, Part two.

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Behind the Clown paint The Trial, his insanity, defense, fourteen

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years on death row, painting clowns and selling art May tenth,

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nineteen ninety four, His execution, and his legacy. How John

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Wayne Gaysey created the killer clown trope that defines American horror.

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Stephen King's Pennywise exists because of Pogo. Two parts, complete

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coverage the most prolific serial killer case in American history

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at the time. Don't miss it. See you tomorrow for

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Part one,