Скачать или смотреть Lima and Perez Await Execution (1963)

On February 6, 1961, Carolyn Lima and Leslie Elaine Perez (then known as Leslie Douglas Ashley) arrived at the Houston office of realtor Fred Tones for a prearranged sexual encounter. Authorities discovered Tones’ body later that night. He had been fatally shot six times and then burned. Lima and Perez evaded police for three weeks, driving Tones’ Lincoln to Galveston and New Orleans before the FBI found them in New York City. The “Beatnik Killers”—as they were referred to by the Houston Press—were back in Houston the following month, facing charges of capital murder. During their joint trial, Lima and Perez claimed to have killed Tones in self-defense. On May 24, a Harris County jury passed a guilty verdict and sentenced both to death. Lima would have been the first woman legally executed in Texas in nearly a century.

In this KHOU-TV segment, newsman Mark Hepler reports from the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville about the planned executions of Lima and Perez. The pair was scheduled to die just after midnight that night, March 29, 1963. Hepler then speaks with Jack Hurd, assistant director of the state prison system, on how the unit prepares to receive a possible stay of execution order.

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Contributed by Houston Metropolitan Research Center.

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