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” he said. The police continued the interrogation. Donny

a van approached a police roadblock. Suddenly shots rang out

and low on money. Gary decided that they had to make a run for the Mexican border

which had followed the news of the manhunt with a mixture of fear and admiration for the daring prison escape. Now revulsion replaced admiration. The crimes were characterized by the media as a “mad-dog murder spree

baby and John were in or near the white Lincoln

Ricky and Ray retrieved the water jug from the Lyones’ Mazda and were on their way back when they heard the shotguns fire. They could see flashes of fire through the darkness. They stood transfixed. It seemed to last forever. Then it was qu...

with the Mazda following behind. Gary stopped and the Lyonses were ordered out of the Lincoln while the men cleaned out the Mazda

a young marine named John Lyons was driving his family on a vacation. About an hour into their road trip

the alarm was sounded and the manhunt was on. But the escapees were keeping to back roads in the old white Lincoln supplied by their Uncle Joe

Randy Greenawalt—also a convicted murderer—was in an adjoining control room. When the other visitors had left

their father wasn’t a killer. A guard had been accidentally shot in a scuffle. It was not in cold blood. Their father was incapable of that. Gary told them that his criminal conduct had been a result of secret training he had received in th...

“We’ll make it out without firing a shot or being fired at. And once outside

the three Tison brothers arrived at the Florence State Prison with their perennial picnic basket. Beneath the fried chicken were pistols and shotguns.

Gary had to get himself removed from the “escape risk” list and maximum security—to establish a sense of trust in him by the prison officials. When some young prisoners acted up

” since he had spent most of his adult life behind bars

abolitionists were focusing on the significant number of death row inmates who had neither killed nor intended to kill. Most of these non-triggermen had been convicted of murder on the basis of two legal fictions. The first was the law of c...

since neither Ricky nor his brother Raymond Tison actually killed anyone. Nor did they intend anyone to die when they helped their father Gary and his cellmate Randy Greenawalt escape from prison. But at least four innocent people—including...

mother and three sons. The family of the victims consisted of a father

and it was clear that at least some of them believed the death penalty to be constitutional. The umpires — if not the rules — had been changed after the strategy of the game had been worked out and irretrievably put into action. Now there w...

it held that a condemned person’s constitutional rights were not violated “by permitting the jury to impose the death penalty without any governing standards” or by permitting the imposition of the death penalty in “the same proceeding and....