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The founder of the Wieden+Kennedy agency, Dan Wieden, credits the inspiration for his "Just Do It" Nike slogan to a death row inmate Gary Gilmore’s last words: "Let's do it." [ 1 ] From 1988 to 1998, Nike increased its share of the North American domestic sport-shoe business from 18% to 43% (from $877 million to $9.2 billion in worldwide ...
Ronald Allen Smith [ 63] Kidnapped and murdered 23-year-old Harvey Mad Man and 20-year-old Thomas Running Rabbit, two Native American men in the fall of 1982. 41 years, 155 days. Smith is the only Canadian on death row in the United States.
Race White 61 62% Black 37 37% Native American 1 1% Age 20–29 4 4% 30–39 28 28% 40–49 40 40% 50–59 19 19% 60–69 7 7% 70–79 1 1% Date of execution
Helen Prejean CSJ (/ p r eɪ ˈ ʒ ɑː n / pray-ZHAHN; [1] born April 21, 1939) is a Catholic religious sister and a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.. She is known for her best-selling book, Dead Man Walking (1993), based on her experiences with two convicts on death row for whom she served as spiritual adviser before their executions.
On June 28, 2015, 46-year-old Teresa Sievers was murdered at her home in Bonita Springs, Florida. Two men bludgeoned her to death with a hammer, striking her seventeen times. Police arrested Curtis Wayne Wright Jr. and Jimmy Ray Rodgers, both from Missouri, for the crime. In December 2015, Teresa's husband, Mark Sievers, was arrested and ...
James Donald French ( c. 1936 – August 10, 1966) was an American double murderer who was the last person executed under Oklahoma 's death penalty laws prior to Furman v. Georgia, which suspended capital punishment in the United States from 1972 until 1976.
The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty).As an example, John Steven Gardner (the first person executed in Texas during the 2020 decade) was the 568th person executed since resumption of the death penalty.
The earliest known shoes are sagebrush bark sandals dating from approximately 7000 or 8000 BC, found in the Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon in 1938. [5] The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in the Areni-1 cave complex in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3500 BC.