Murder of Roger Honeycutt

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On September 4, 1977, in Wayne County, Georgia, 25-year-old Fort Stewart soldier Roger Honeycutt (1952 – September 4, 1977), who was moonlighting as a taxi driver, was kidnapped by two fellow soldiers, Thomas Dean Stevens (1957 – June 28, 1993) and Christopher Allen Burger (December 30, 1959 – December 7, 1993), who robbed and sexually assaulted Honeycutt before they drowned him. The two murderers were caught for the crime after a friend of theirs got wind of their involvement and filed a report to the police. In January 1978, both Stevens and Burger were found guilty and sentenced to death. Stevens was executed by the electric chair at the age of 36 on June 28, 1993, while Burger, who was 17 at the time of the offense, was similarly executed by electrocution five months later on December 7, 1993, in spite of widespread efforts to seek clemency for Burger, who became one of the few offenders to be executed for crimes committed as a juvenile in the United States.

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