1992 Dayton Christmas murders

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The 1992 Dayton Christmas murders were a series of murders committed by a four-member gang, during a three-day period around Christmas Day of 1992 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. The four murderers, led by ringleader Marvallous Matthew Keene, had killed a total of six people and injured another two, with varying motives of robbery and to silence potential witnesses, and the deceased victims included two friends of Keene. All four perpetrators, aged between 16 and 20, were arrested and charged with multiple counts of aggravated murder. The trial of the four ended with Keene sentenced to death for five of the murders, while the rest – Heather Nicole Matthews, Laura Jeanne Taylor and DeMarcus Maurice Smith – were all sentenced to life in prison. Keene was ultimately executed by lethal injection on July 21, 2009, becoming the 1,000th condemned person in the U.S. to undergo a lethal injection execution since 1982.

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