In the New York Times today, Amy Qin and Patricia Mazzei reported on the new Florida law that prohibits many Chinese citizens from buying property in Florida, especially near important infrastructure like airports, refineries, and military installations. Qin and Mazzei note that more than three dozen states either have enacted or are crafting laws to restrict the purchase of land, businesses, or housing by Chinese nationals, even if they have legal residence in the United States. The justification for the laws is that Chinese investment in the U.S. is a national security risk, although Chinese nationals own less than 400,000 acres in the United States.
It was an odd echo, for on this day in 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed into law the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese workers, but not scholars, businessmen, or diplomats, from immigrating to the United States for ten years. This was the first federal limitation of voluntary immigration to the United States, and it would be extended for more than 60 years.
Chinese migrants had first come to California Territory after the discovery of gold there in 1848. Those who joined the rush to “Gold Mountain” were escaping the devastation of the First Opium War of 1839–1842, hoping to make money in America and then return to China, from which they could not legally emigrate. Expecting to go home again, they retained their languages, their culture, and their clothing. They tended to work the mines Americans had cleaned of their biggest deposits, focusing on meticulous reworking of the gravel, and they did better than native-born Americans thought they should.
With the sudden influx of miners to the region, Congress scrambled to turn California into a state. In 1850 a legislature charged with establishing the legal framework for the proposed state adopted the federal law enacted a half-century earlier, in 1802, that limited citizenship to “free white persons.” The state legislature then went on to impose a foreign miner’s tax on Chinese and Mexican miners; then, in 1854, the state courts agreed that Chinese nationals could not testify in court against white Americans. In 1855 the legislature tried to stop Chinese immigration altogether by passing a $50 tax on shipmasters for each person ineligible for citizenship they brought to the state.
The creation of different legal systems for native-born Americans and immigrants in California mirrored the same distinctions in eastern states, prompting members of the new Republican Party like New York’s William Henry Seward and Abraham Lincoln of Illinois to worry that the principle of the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” was being left behind.
During the Civil War, congressmen were dismayed that European nations were not inclined to support the United States over the Confederacy, and they began to insist the U.S. must turn away from Europe and toward Asia for a new future. In 1867, Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner suggested that increased trade with China would expand human freedom, but he was not blind to the commercial possibilities. “All are looking to the Orient…China and Japan, those ancient realms of fabulous wealth,” he said. “To unite the east of Asia with the west of America is the aspiration of commerce….”
In 1868 the United States ratified a treaty with China—the Burlingame Treaty—designed to promote the exchange of people and trade between the two countries. It recognized the right of Chinese to immigrate to the United States “for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents.”
Trade between China and the United States picked up, with new ships, called “Down-Easters,” speeding across the waters of the Pacific to bring coal, oil, mechanical equipment, and consumer goods to China and bringing back Chinese sewing chests, shells, and fans that decorated upper-class homes, as well as passengers. In 1869, in his annual message to Congress, President U. S. Grant noted that manufactures were booming. “Through the agency of a more enlightened policy than that heretofore pursued toward China,” he said, “the world is about to commence largely increased relations with that populous and hitherto exclusive nation.”
That vision of global prosperity spread across the East Coast, where shipping towns thrived as their workmen built the schooners that traveled the Pacific trade, but it did not reach to the West Coast.
The same year the Senate ratified the Burlingame Treaty, the addition of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution should have overridden state discrimination against Chinese immigrants. But a loophole that confirmed as citizens “all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” allowed western legislatures to fall back on the 1802 naturalization laws that limited citizenship to free white persons. Legislators assumed Chinese immigrants were excluded from citizenship, and in 1870, Congress bowed to that interpretation when it passed a new naturalization law.
A recession that hit California in the wake of the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 exacerbated white inhabitants’ rejection of their Chinese neighbors. Railroad workers moved back to West Coast cities just as the connection to the markets of the East tanked prices in places like San Francisco and threw men out of work. At the same time, the Burlingame Treaty brought more Chinese immigrants to the same cities, convincing white men that they were losing their jobs to an influx of Chinese competitors.
In San Francisco, Irish-born drayman Denis Kearney had built a successful business moving goods around the city by wagon. But he could go only so far because the leading businessmen who ruled San Francisco controlled the freight-moving business, and they refused to fix the street’s potholes. In 1877, Kearney began to organize workingmen, urging them to rise up. Initially, Kearney praised Chinese workers, but he quickly began to blame them for white workingmen’s economic problems. He began to demand that employers fire all their Chinese workers, using the slogan: “The Chinese must go.”
In 1879, Republican senator James G. Blaine, who had an instinctive sense of which way the political winds were blowing and a desperate hunger for the presidency, backed the idea of ending Chinese immigration. Fellow eastern Republicans lambasted him for giving up on democratic principles of human equality, but the 1880 presidential election shocked them into his camp. Republican James Garfield won the election, but by only slightly more than 8,000 votes out of more than 9 million cast. Party leaders had to figure out how to win more states in 1884, and California was a good place to start. Garfield had lost there by only 144 votes out of 164,218 cast.
In 1882, Republicans bowed to western sentiments and passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. Harper’s Weekly lamented Republican willingness to prohibit “the voluntary immigration of free skilled laborers into the country, and…to renounce the claim that America welcomes every honest comer.” In the following years, western states passed laws prohibiting intermarriage of Chinese with whites and prohibiting “aliens” from owning property.
In 1885, Chinese immigrant Saum Song Bo wrote a letter for a missionary magazine explaining his outrage upon being asked to contribute money to the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. “[T]he word liberty makes me think of the fact that this country is the land of liberty for men of all nations except the Chinese,” he wrote. “I consider it as an insult to us Chinese to call on us to contribute toward building in this land a pedestal for a statue of Liberty. That statue represents Liberty holding a torch which lights the passage of those of all nations who come into this country. But are the Chinese allowed to come? As for the Chinese who are here, are they allowed to enjoy liberty as men of all other nationalities enjoy it? Are they allowed to go about everywhere free from the insults, abuse, assaults, wrongs and injuries from which men of other nationalities are free?”
It was not until 1943, in the midst of a war in which China and the U.S. were allies, that the U.S. Congress overturned the Chinese Exclusion Act to permit quotas of Chinese immigrants to come to the U.S.
Today, lawmakers justify laws against Chinese property ownership on the grounds of national security, and the Chinese government is indeed known to use espionage to weaken its geopolitical rivals. But New York Times reporters Qin and Mazzei note that national security experts say “that the specific threat posed by Chinese people owning homes has not been clearly articulated.”
For his part, University of Florida professor Zhengfei Guan, a Chinese national with lawful permanent residency in Florida, is suing the state over another new Florida law, this one banning state universities from working with people from “a country of concern,” including China. The law has created “a culture of fear,” a faculty member told Siena Duncan of Politico, and, if he loses his lawsuit, Guan is thinking of leaving. “My thought is this is not a place for me anymore,” he said.
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Notes:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/us/florida-land-law-chinese-homes.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/us/politics/china-restrictions-distrust.html
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/chinese-exclusion-act
https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/speed.htm
Charles Sumner, “The Cession of Russian America to the United States,” (Washington: Congressional Globe Office, 1867), pp. 11–12.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/1880
Xi Wang, The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860–1910 (University of Georgia Press, 1997).
Harper’s Weekly, May 20, 1882, pp. 306–307.
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/29/chinese-professors-florida-ban-00154616
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-6-2024

This is the list that I wrote for the 113 inmates executed by the state of Virginia, from the 1976 Gregg national reinstatement of the death penalty to the state abolishing it in 2021. For the sake of clarification, the dates given here are an approximate timeframe of the offender's earliest known criminal activities to their executions. Many of the crimes surveyed here are also extremely horrific, and the gory details are discussed in my descriptions. Please read at your own risk.
Unfortunately, as with Missouri, the list exceeds the maximum 40,000 character count Reddit allows for submissions, and thus I had to split it into two separate posts. Here is the link to part 2 of this list.
The 113 executed offenders:
1. Frank Coppola (~1960s-1982, electric chair): Coppola, his wife, and two other accomplices hatched a plan to rob Payton Wetchell, a 55 year old car dealer, at his home. One of the accomplices posed as a delivery girl, and lured Payton's wife, 51 year old Muriel, out by ringing the doorbell. The group then forced themselves inside at gunpoint and tried extorting from her valuables though beatings. Mariel’s head was slammed against the door numerous times, and she ended up dying from suffocating on her vomit and a brain hemorrhage. When Peyton arrived at the scene, he was beaten as well. Although he survived, the treatment for the fractures required Peyton to have a steel plate grafted on his forehead, and he took his own life about a decade after the incident. The Coppolas and their accomplices made off with $3,000 and 3 rings. Coppola was a career burglar, and lost his job as a policeman for failing to report inmate abuse. His execution caused some controversy, as a witnesses described Coppola's legs catching fire during the electrocution.
2. Linwood Briley (~1971-1984, electric chair): In 1971, at the age of 16, Briley killed his neighbor, 57 year old Orline Christian, in a sniper attack from his bedroom window while she was laying clothesline. He escaped prosecution by convincing authorities that it was an accident. 8 years later, Briley went on a rape and robbery spree with two of his brothers (including James) and another accomplice. They murdered anywhere between ~12-21 males and females in their attacks. Their means of killings were very diverse and circumstantial, and completely indiscriminate on who they killed. The eldest known victim was 76 year old Mary Gowen, whom they raped and shot to death, while their youngest was 5 year old Harvey Barton, who was shot dead after the gang gang-raped and murdered his pregnant mother, 23 year old Judy. Some like, 17 year old Christopher Philips had his head crushed with a concrete block, a few others like 62 year old Mary Wilfong were beaten to death with baseball bats, and 59 year old Charles Garner was fatally stabbed with scissors and a fork. Almost all the victims were murdered in their homes, but some were attacked at their jobs. While on death row, Briley and James escaped with 4 other inmates, but were recaptured after a 3 week long manhunt.
3. James Briley (~1970s-1985, electric chair): He was one of Linwood Briley's brothers, and he assisted in him in the robbery, rapes, and murders of at least 12 to 21 people. As previously mentioned, Briley and Linwood broke out of prison on death row with several other inmates, and were all recaptured within weeks after their escape.
4. Morris Mason (~1960s-1985, electric chair): Mason broke into the homes of two elderly women, 86 year old Ursula Stevenson and 71 year old Margaret Hand. In both attacks, the victims were raped, beaten with an ax handle, bound and nailed to chairs, and burned alive when he set their houses on fire. He also attacked a pair of sisters, who were 12 and 13 years old, in their home. The 13 year old grabbed a gun from their father’s closet for protection, but Mason wrestled the gun away, and shot her instead. She survived with crippling injuries. Mason then kidnapped the 12 year old, took her to a nearby forest, and sodomized her. He covered the girl with leaves, lit them on fire, but she survived with only minor burns to her hair and shirt. Mason was also responsible for several burglaries during his crime spree, and was convicted several previous times for arson attacks. Authorities believe that Mason was committing acts of arson since his childhood. His execution sparked some controversy, due to him allegedly having a cognitive disability.
5. Michael Smith (~1970s-1986, electric chair): Smith kidnapped 35 year old Audrey Weiler while she was walking from a beach. He dragged her into a forest and raped her. During the sexual assault, Smith stabbed Weiler and drowned her in a nearby river. At the time of the attack, Smith was a sex offender with a rape conviction, and had reoffended against Weiler only months after his release from prison.
6. Richard Whitley (1980-1987, electric chair): Whitley went to the home of his occasional employer, 63 year old Phoebe Parsons, to vent about his broken marriage. As they were conversing, he stabbed Parsons to death. During the attack, he sodomized Parsons with an umbrella, and engaged in sex acts with her body. He then sacked the home of any valuables, stole her car, and fled to Florida.
7. Earl Clanton Jr. (~1971-1988, electric chair): At the age of 17, Clanton killed an unidentified woman in circumstances largely undisclosed beyond it being a robbery. Although Clanton was given a 26-28 year sentence, he was paroled 8 years later. A year after his release, he strangled a neighbor, 38 year old Wilhemina Smith, during a robbery of her home. He also had a malicious wounding conviction when he badly injured a teenage boy with brass knuckles, and his mother had made complaints of him stealing money from her. However, Clanton claimed that she faked her complaints in retaliation for him refusing a sexual relationship with her. Clanton also took part in the mass prison escape orchestrated by the Briley brothers, but was recaptured with them.
8. Alton Waye (1977-1989, electric chair): Waye invaded the home of 61 year old Lavergne Marshall, and stabbed her 42 times. He then raped Marshall and poured bleach on her body.
9. Richard Boggs (1984-1990, electric chair): After Boggs killed an unidentified man in a hit and run accident, he rushed to the home of his neighbor, 87 year old Treeby Shaw. When she offered him tea, Boggs hit her in the head with a steel object, and stabbed her to death with a butcher knife. He stole some silver from the home, which was discovered by investigating police officers in his car. On an unrelated side note, Boggs' older brother was shot dead by police during a car chase some years after his execution.
10. Wilbert Evans (~1964-1990, electric chair): While incarcerated for a robbery in North Carolina, Evans was transferred to Virginia to testify at a murder trial. While being transported in a prison van, he decided to take the opportunity to escape, and seized a gun from one of his escorts, 47 year old William Truesdale. Truesdale was shot dead during the struggle and Evans used the gun to destroy his handcuffs. Although he managed to jump out of the van, Evans was cornered by police officers only a few blocks away, and was recaptured followed a bungled suicide attempt. Evans had an extensive criminal history, and was convicted of robbing a gas station at the age of 18. During his time on death row, he protected staff members held hostage from being raped and abused by the Briley brothers during their attempted escape. His execution caused some controversy, as blood was observed coming out of his blood, nose, and eyes during the fatal shocks.
11. Buddy Justus (1978-1990, electric chair): Justus abducted and raped 3 women, 32 year old Rosemary Jackson, 21 year old Stephanie Hawkins, and 21 year old Ida Moses, and shot them to death. He was charged with a 4th murder, as Moses was pregnant and her unborn child also died in the attack. In two of his known murders, Justus was assisted by an 18 year old man that he befriend after he picked him up hitchhiking. He also received several life and death sentences in the states of Georgia and Florida.
12. Albert Clozza (1983-1991, electric chair): Clozza snatched 13 year old Patricia Bolton while she was walking home from a bookmobile. He dragged the girl into a forest and sodomized her with a twig. She was also severely beaten in the attack, and the corner's report mentioned that Bolton was "asphyxiated by her own blood."
13. Derrick Peterson (1982-1991, electric chair): During a holdup of a grocery store, Peterson shot and killed the manger, 45 year old Howard Kauffman. He then ran off with thousands of dollars worth in checks and cash.
14. Roger Coleman (~1977-1992, electric chair): Coleman tricked his sister-in-law, 19 year old Wanda McCoy, into letting him inside her house. He then raped and stabbed her, and she was nearly decapitated in the attack. A long standing sex offender, Coleman was convicted of raping a woman in her home a few years prior to McCoy's murder, and had exposed himself to two other women just before the killing. Unfortunately for him, one of the women happened to be an artist, and she drew a sketch that enabled the police to identify him for the murder. Despite his past offenses, Coleman had a strong following for his innocence among the anti death penalty crowd. A notion that was debunked following a 2006 DNA test that concluded his guilt.
15. Edward Fitzgerald Sr. (1980-1992, electric chair): Out of fear of her being a police informant, Fitzgerald abducted his drug dealer, 22 year old Patricia Cubbage. He raped and stabbed her 184 times, and reportedly carved a "tick-tack-toe design" into Cubbage's back.
16. Willie Jones (1983-1992, electric chair): Jones tricked the parents of an acquaintance, 78 year old Myra and 80 year old Graham, into letting him inside their house by pretending to be an undercover cop searching for missing children. He shot and killed Graham, tied up and gagged Myra, locked her in a closet, and stole their entire life savings (which amounted to $30,000). To destroy any evidence of his crime, Jones set the house on fire. Myra, who was still tied up and trapped in her closet, was burned alive. Jones was also one of the inmates that escaped from death row with the Briley brothers, but was recaptured weeks after the breakout
17. Timothy Bunch (1982-1992, electric chair): Bunch, a then active service Marine, was dating Su Cha Thomas, a 40 year old South Korean immigrant. Believing that Thomas was too much like his “slut” ex wife, Bunch decided that he wanted to rob and kill her. He tricked Thomas into letting him inside her home with the promise of a date. She was shot in the head and Bunch hung the body to a closet doorknob with a scarf. Bunch then ransacked the home, and stole a watch, diamond ring, and a pearl necklace. According to investigators, he confided in them that he had an orgasm while robbing and murdering Thomas. After the killing, Bunch was deployed to Japan, but extradited back to Virginia to face trial for Thomas’ murder.
18. Charles Stamper (1978-1993, electric chair): While robbing a restaurant that he worked at, Stamper shot and killed three of his co workers, 43 year old Agnes Hicks, 35 year old Franklin Cooley, and 20 year old Steven. He stole a total of $4,000 in the robbery. On death row, Stamper was attacked by fellow death row inmate Lem Tuggle for allegedly being a snitch. The assault left him permanently paralyzed, which made his execution somewhat controversial.
19. Syvasky Poyner (~1970s-1993, electric chair): Poyner shot and killed 5 females, 72 year old Louise Paulett, 45 year old Joyce Baldwin, 44 year old Carolyn Hedrick, 43 year old Chestine Brooks, and 17 year old Vicki Ripple during a two week long robbery spree. He directed his attacks towards beauty parlors, supermarkets, ice cream shops, and motels. A life long career criminal, Poyner had several auto theft, forgery, and burglary convictions, and his earliest date back to when he was 14 years old.
20. Andrew Chabrol (1991-1993, electric chair): Chabrol, a Navy serviceman, made unwanted advances on a fellow married sailor, 27 year old Melissa Harrington, and refused to back down despite repeated rejections. Harrington filed sexual harassment charges, and Chabrol was dismissed from service following an investigation. Angered by the loss of his career and her rebuffing his advances, Chabrol kidnapped Harrington from her home with the help of a friend, and tied her to his bed. He then raped and strangled her to death. The case attracted outcry years later when it was discovered that Chabrol and Harrington’s remains were buried in close proximity to each other in the Arlington cemetery.
21. Joe Wise (1983-1993, electric chair): Wise abducted 45 year old William Ricketson during a robbery. He beat and shot his captive in the eye and chest, dumped him in a water hole used for an abandoned power plant's lavatory, and drove off with his truck. Although Ricketson survived the shooting, he drowned in the hole.
22. David Pruett (~1975-1993, electric chair): In 1975, Pruett fatally stabbed his co worker, 22 year old Debra McInnis, while robbing a restaurant they worked at together. As the investigators weren't able to solve the McInnis murder, Pruett remained a free man. 11 years later, he tied up his friend's wife, 35 year old Wilma Harvey, in the couple's home while her husband was out of town. He raped Harvey, stabbed her 29 times and slit her throat, ransacked the house for any valuables, and stole an undisclosed amount of money. Pruett was also tried and sentenced for an unrelated rape incident alongside Harvey and McInnis' murders.
23. Johnny Watkins Jr. (1983-1994, electric chair): Watkins gunned down two store clerks, 41 year old Carl Buchanan and 22 year old Betty Barker, during a week long robbery spree. In the robberies that killed Buchanan and Barker, Watkins stole a combined total of $125. His brother Ronald was also executed for an unrelated robbery murder [for more details, please see section 49 on Ronald Watkins].
24. Timothy Spencer (~1980s-1994, electric chair): Spencer broke into the residences of at least 5 women and girls, 44 year old Susan Tucker, 35 year old Debbie Davis, 32 year old Susan Hellams, 32 year old Carolyn Hamm, and Diane Cho, a 15 year old South Korean immigrant, and raped them. All the verified victims were strangled to death with ligatures and ratchets. Another man was falsey convicted of Hamm's murder, but was cleared of guilt in a 1989 DNA test. The falsely accused man was one of the first inmates to be exonerated using DNA testing, while paradoxically Spencer was the first serial killer to be convicted with DNA evidence. Spencer also had a history of burglaries before his killing sprees.
25. Dana Edmonds (1983-1995, lethal injection): During a robbery of a grocery store, Edmonds tied up a grocer, 62 year old John Elliott. He bashed Elliot's head with a brick, stabbed his neck, and took $40 from the register.
26. Willie Turner (~1970s-1995, lethal injection): In 1978, Turner shot and killed W. J. Smith, a 54 year old jeweler, during a jewelry store robbery. A few years prior to Smith's murder, Turner had killed an unidentified inmate in largely undisclosed circumstances while serving time for a malicious wounding conviction, but was let out on parole. While on death row, Turner took part in the Briley brothers led breakout, and made several escape attempts on his own. In one incident, Turner pretended to have smuggled a gun in his cell, and used the hoax to make threats against the prison staff.
27. Dennis Stockton (~1950s-1995, lethal injection): 18 year old Kenneth Arnder allegedly crossed a dealer during a drug deal. The dealer retaliated by paying Stockton $2,000 to kill him. Stockton lured Arnder in his car with the promise of driving him to safety, and shot the youth in the eyes. He cut the hands off his body to prevent identification and dumped it in a remote North Carolinan forest. Stockton had a long criminal history since he was a teenager, which included several convictions of arson, safecracking, drug dealing, and weapons possession charges. Police also found dismembered body parts kept in a jar in his home, but Stockton claimed that it was simply a gift given to him by a biker gang, and he only kept the remains to show off at parties.
28. Mickey Davidson (1990-1995, lethal injection): Davidson’s wife, 36 year old wife Doris, made a decision to leave him for her ex husband. In a jealous rage, he beat her and her two daughters, 14 year old Mamie and 13 year old Tammy Clutterback, to death with a crowbar.
29. Herman Barnes (1984-1995, lethal injection): Barnes held up a grocery store at gunpoint, and shot and killed the owner, 72 year old Clyde Jenkins. Mohammad Afifi, a 42 year old Palestinian immigrant that worked as the store’s clerk, was also gunned down when he came to his boss’s aid.
30. Walter Correll Jr. (1985-1996, lethal injection): Correll and two accomplices ambushed, carjacked, and kidnapped 24 year old Charles Bousman Jr. after they motioned him to stop on a remote highway. After they stole his rings and watch, they beat and stabbed Bousman to death, dumped his body in a nearby forest, and drove off with his car. His execution was a source of contention, as Correll's supporters and attorneys assert that he was an intellectually disabled man set up by his accomplices for lesser sentences.
31. Richard Townes Jr. (~1970s-1996, lethal injection): Townes shot a clerk, 32 year old Virginia Goebel, in the head while robbing a grocery store, and stole $183 from the register. He had a long history of violent robberies, and had shot and wounded a taxi driver after holding him hostage for 6 hours several years before Goebel's murder.
32. Joseph Savino III (~1980s-1996, lethal injection): After he was released on parole from an armed robbery conviction, Savino beat his boyfriend, 64 year old Thomas McWaters, to death with a hammer in their home. According to Savino, McWaters was pressuring him for sex, and threatened to have his parole revoked if it was withheld.
33. Ronald Bennett (1985-1996, lethal injection): Bennett broke into the home of Anne Vaden, a 28 year real estate agent. After he tied Vaden up, Bennett beat, strangled, and stabbed her to death. One of Vaden's rings was stolen in the robbery, and he gave it to his wife. The murder was left cold for a year, but was solved when Bennett's wife drunkenly confessed her husband's deeds to a friend while showing off the ring.
34. Gregory Beaver (~1980s-1996, lethal injection): After Beaver escaped from a Maryland rehab center, he went on a rampage that involved stealing a car and storming a restaurant his stepfather owned to rob and assault him. While speeding away from the scene with a hitchhiker he picked up, Beaver was pulled over by Leo Whitt, a 49 year old state trooper. In the scuffle that broke out, Beaver shot and killed Whitt. The hitchhiker then tricked Beaver into stopping at a nearby restaurant, and he used the payphone to call the police on him. Beaver previously had 10 unspecified felony convictions, which was why he was placed by his family in the Maryland rehab center.
35. Larry Stout (1987-1996, lethal injection): Stout assaulted a dry cleaning store with a knife, slashed the throat of the owner, 40 year old Jacqueline Kooshian, and stole $1,200.
36. Lem Tuggle Jr. (~1971-1996, lethal injection): In 1971, Tuggle raped and fatally strangled 16 year old Shirley Brickey, and was given a 20 year sentence for it. He was released from prison after serving 10 years. Two years after his release, Tuggle lured 52 year old Jessie Havens from a dance hall, and then raped and shot her to death. On death row, he participated in the mass escape orchestrated by the Briley brothers, and paralyzed the above mentioned Charles Stamper for allegedly being an informant.
37. Ronald Hoke (1985-1996, lethal injection): Hoke forced his way inside the home of 56 year old Virginia Stell, a woman he met at a bar. He raped and stabbed her to death with a knife taken from the kitchen, and stole some medication from Stell's purse.
38. Michael George (1979-1997, lethal injection): In 1979, George lured 9 year old Larry Perry from his grandparents' home, and shot the boy dead after raping him. As the body was never found and the prosecution couldn't disprove his claims of it being an accidental killing, George was able to secure an involuntary manslaughter plea deal from the courts, and was released within two years for good behavior. After his release, he molested several teenage boys, and expressed fantasies about them being sexually tortured by "evil creatures" in the forest in his written works of fiction. In 1990, George made his fantasies a reality when he ambushed and abducted 15 year old Alexander Sztanko while the boy was ridding a motorbike. He shackled Sztanko to a tree, sodomized him with a stun gun, sliced pieces of his skin with a machete, shot him in the head, and stole his motorbike. Other teenage boys in the area also reported being assaulted in the same manner as Sztanko by a “Rambo like” camouflaged assailant. Although it is strongly believed that George was responsible for the attacks, he wasn't convicted of them.
39. Coleman Gray (1985-1997, lethal injection): Gray kidnapped 49 year old Richard McClelland while robbing a store he managed. He forced McClelland to collect over $12,000 in cash, drove his captive to a remote dirt road, and shot him six times in the head.
40. Roy Smith (1988-1997, lethal injection): Smith got into a violent argument with his wife in their home, and the neighbors called the police on him. He fired on the responding officers, and killed John Conner, a 38 year old sergeant. The remaining officers managed to subdue him after a brief standoff and physical struggle.
41. Joseph O'Dell III (~1958-1997, lethal injection): O'Dell was condemned for the abduction, rape, and strangulation murder of 44 year old Helen Schartner. She was last seen leaving from a night club, and her body was found near a beach. His execution was controversial, as O'Dell had a massive support base who believed in his innocence. The circuit court's decision to burn the DNA evidence relating to the Schartner case in 2000 sparked further outcry from them. Despite this, O'Dell was a long time felon with over 17 convictions dating back to the 1950s, and a woman claimed to have escaped a kidnapping attempt from him.
42. Carlton Pope (~1982-1997, lethal injection): Pope shot and killed 24 year old Cynthia Gray and wounded her sister while robbing them at a pool. He had a malicious wounding conviction when he shot a friend in the toe, and was paroled months before Gray's murder for that sentence.
43. Mario Murphy (1992-1997, lethal injection): 37 year old James Radcliff's wife hired Murphy to kill him in order to collect a life insurance policy. She, her boyfriend, Murphy, and 3 other conspirators pounced on Radcliff while he was sleeping in his bed, and they stabbed and beat him to death with a metal pipe. Due to all the other conspirators accepting plea deals, Murphy was the only one sentenced to death for the murder, which he perceived was because of Mexican nationality. His death sentence and execution also caused a minor diplomatic dispute with Mexico.
44. Dawud Mu'Min (1973-1997, lethal injection): At the age of 19 in 1973, Mu'Min shot and killed Charles Shupe, a 43 year old taxi driver, while robbing his taxi. He was given a 48 year sentence for the murder. 15 years later, Mu'Min was assigned to a inmate labor program. While working on a road, he pretended to be on a lunch break, and took the opportunity to sneak away from his escorts and supervisors. Mu'Min broke into a shopping center, raped Gladys Nopwasky, a 42 year old retailer, and stabbed her 16 times with a screwdriver. After he stole $4 from her purse, Mu'Min returned back to the work program.
45. Michael Satcher (1990-1997, lethal injection): Satcher ambushed 23 year old Anne Borghesani while she was biking near a highway. He raped, beat, and stabbed her 16 times with an axl. Another young woman was also assaulted by Satcher in a similar fashion, but she survived the attack. Both of their purses were stolen and disposed of in the same bush.
46. Thomas Beavers Jr. (1990-1997, lethal injection): Beavers broke into the home of 61 year old Marguerite Lowery, and raped and suffocated her to death with a pillow. He sacked the house, stole her jewelry, and drove off with Lowery's car. The killing went unsolved until a year later when Beavers was arrested for sexually assaulting a neighbor in circumstances nearly identical to Lowery's murder. A police search while investigating the neighbor incident found Lowery's stolen jewelry in his house.
47. Tony Mackall (1986-1998, lethal injection): While holding up a gas station at gunpoint, Mackall shot the cashier, 31 year old Mary Dahn, and took $515 from the register.
48. Douglas Buchanan Jr. (1987-1998, lethal injection): Enraged that his father, 43 year old Douglas, married a much younger woman, 31 year old Geraldine, shortly after his mother's passing, Buchanan shot him to death in their home. He also gunned down and stabbed Geraldine and her two sons, 13 year old Joel and 10 year old Donnie.
49. Ronald Watkins (1988-1998, lethal injection): While robbing a store that he formerly work at, Watkins stabbed the store owner, 29 year old William McCauley, 7 time in his back and slit his throat. McCauley's body was discovered by his father, who stopped by to check on his son after he failed to return home on time. As a sidenote, Watkins was the younger brother of the above mentioned Johnny Watkins Jr..
50. Ángel Breard (1992-1998, lethal injection): Breard stabbed his neighbor, 29 year old Ruth Dickie, to death during a botched rape in her home. He also made another unsuccessful attempt at sexually assaulting a second neighbor half a year later, which enabled investigators to tie him to Dickie's murder. His death sentence and execution sparked outrage in his native Paraguay.
51. Dennis Eaton (1989-1998, lethal injection): Eaton and his girlfriend, 24 year old Judy McDonald, carjacked 68 year old Ripley Marston Sr. and 26 year old Walter Custer Jr., and shot them both dead. While speeding away from the murder scene, the couple were pulled over by a state trooper, 48 year old Jerry Hines, and gunned him down as well. In the following police chase, Eaton ended up crashing his car into a telephone pole, and injured McDonald in the process. As they were corned, Eaton finished off McDonald by shooting her in the head, and made an attempt to commit suicide before he was subdued.
52. Danny King (~1980s(?)-1998, lethal injection): King and his then wife duped Carolyn Rogers, a 55 year old real estate agent, into letting them inside a vacant house by posing as clients. They jumped Rogers as she was giving them a tour of the house. She was choked with King's bare hands and stabbed to death in the assault. The couple then stole rings and checks from her purse. Both King and his ex wife blamed each other for the murder, but King was the one that was convicted of it by the courts. King also had a long history of robbery and car thefts, and was released from prison 10 days before the murder.
53. Lance Chandler Jr. (~1987-1998, lethal injection): Chandler shot and killed a clerk, 33 year old William Dix, during a convenience store robbery. He had a criminal record dating back to the age of 14, and had previous arrests for armed robbery, assaulting officers, and public intoxication.
54. Johnile DuBois (~1990s-1998, lethal injection): During a convenience store robbery, DuBois and 3 teenage accomplices tried forcing the clerk, 39 year old Philip Council, to open the register for them. When they thought he was acting too slow, the DuBois and the other robbers beat Council and shot him to death. DuBois had a history of thefts, illicit firearms possessions, assault, and probation violations.
55. Kenneth Stewart Jr. (1991-1998, lethal injection): Stewart separated from his wife, 35 year old Cynthia, after their marriage disintegrated. He was forbidden by the courts from being in contact with their son, 5 month old Jonathan, without Cynthia's consent. To overcome the custody barriers, Stewart tried to reconcile with Cynthia. When she refused, he shot her and Jonathan dead in her home.
56. Dwayne Wright (1989-1998, lethal injection): Wright went on a weeklong crime spree in Maryland and Virginia. In his Maryland attacks, he shot and killed 31 year old Odell Thomas and 24 year old Reginald Turman, and stole Turman's car and a total of $400. He then drove to Virginia, and held Saba Tekle, a 34 year old Ethiopian refugee, at gunpoint in her apartment. Wright forced Tekle to undress, shot her dead when she resisted his attempts at sexual assault, and swapped Truman’s car for hers.
57. Ronald Fitzgerald (1993-1998, lethal injection): Fitzgerald shot and killed 39 year old Coy White in his home in order to get his hands on the man’s 13 year old daughter. He abducted and raped the girl after forcing her to steal money from her father’s pockets, and left her locked in the trunk of his car. After abandoning White’s daughter, Fitzgerald flagged down a taxi driver, Hugh Morrison (age unknown), and shot him dead. Fitzgerald used Morrison’s stolen taxi to kidnap an 18 year old woman and her two children, and drove them to a motel. He raped the 18 year old in the motel room while her two children were watching tv. The family were spared and released, and Fitzgerald forced a couple to drive him to a courthouse with the intentions of committing suicide there. However, the attempt failed with his gun jamming, and he was captured by the police.
58. Kenneth Wilson (1993-1998, lethal injection): Wilson forcibly entered the home of his cousin's girlfriend, 31 year old Jacqueline Stephen, with a knife. He bound Stephen to a bed, and tied her 12 year old daughter and her daughter's 14 year old friend to the bed's posts. Wilson then made an attempt to rape Stephen, and cut her and the girls' throats. Stephen died at the scene, while both of the girls survived their injuries.

Here is the list that I wrote for Georgia's post Furman execution roster for my death penalty project. Like with the previous posts, the dates aren't a precise duration of time spent on death row, but rather an approximation of their earliest known criminal activities to their executions. Many of the crimes discussed in this post are also extremely horrific, and thus please read at your own risk.
As I finished finials yesterday, the remaining states, Missouri, Virginia, Florida, and Oklahoma might be released on a quicker pace. I'm planning on doing Missouri next, but it might be split into at least two separate parts due to the currently 98 executions that have taken place.
The currently executed 77 inmates:
1. John Smith (1974-1983, electric chair): Smith and his wife decided to kill her ex husband, 38 year old Ronald Atkins, and his 29 year old wife Juanita, when they learned that the daughter she had in their former marriage were beneficiaries of the Atkins' life insurance policy. The couple and another accomplice lured the Atkins' to their home with a promise of selling them a television set, and shot them both dead.
2. Ivon Stanley (1976-1984, electric chair): Stanley and an accomplice abducted Clifford Floyd, a 46 year old insurance agent, after they lured him into the accomplice's apartment. Floyd was dragged into a forest, beaten with a hammer, and tied to a tree. He was then shot and buried alive in a shallow grave. Floyd succumbed to a combination of blood loss and suffocation and a total of $234 was stolen from him in the attack.
3. Alpha Stephens (~1961-1984, electric chair): In 1973, Stephens shot dead 57 year old Louise Mercer while robbing a grocery store her brother owned. A year later, Stephens abducted Roy Asbell, a 49 year old minister, from his home with a gun he stole from Asbell's son. Asbell tried bribing his captor with hundreds of dollars in cash for his life, but Stephens simply snatched the money away, dragged Asbell to a barn, and shot him in the head. He had a significant rap sheet that included several armed robberies, prison breakouts, auto thefts, kidnappings, and burglaries, and was first arrested at the age of 16.
4. Roosevelt Green Jr. (1976-1985, electric chair): During a robbery of a convenience store, Green kidnapped the clerk, 18 year old Teresa Allen, stole $466 from the cash register, and drove away with his loot and hostage in her car. He then raped Allen, shot her to death, and dumped her body on a dirt road.
5. Van Solomon (1979-1985, electric chair): Solomon and his accomplice Brandon Jones gunned down 29 year old Roger Tackett while robbing a Tenneco store he managed. Ironically, Solomon himself was shot by an assailant robbing his grocery store some years before the murder.
6. John Young (1974-1985, electric chair): Young attacked 6 elderly men and women with bottles, lamps, fireplace pokers, and vases in their homes, across a single neighborhood. 3 of the victims, 85 year old Coleman Brice, his 83 year old wife Gladys, and 83 year old Katie Davis, were beaten to death in the assaults. Several variables such as jewelry and watches were taken as well.
7. Jerome Bowden (1976-1986, electric chair): Bowden and an accomplice stabbed 55 year old Kathryn Stryker to death and gravely wounded her bedridden mother, 76 year old Wessie Jenkins while burglarizing their home. Several items, such a wig, a pellet gun, some jewelry, and a television set was stolen in the intrusion. The television set was sold by Bowden to one of his acquaintances. Jenkins initially survived the attack, but died from complications relating to their injuries after Bowden was indicted for her daughter's murder.
8. Joseph Mulligan (1974-1987, electric chair): As part of a scheme to collect an insurance policy, Mulligan shot his sister's estranged husband, 30 year old Patrick Doe and Doe's girlfriend, 25 year old Marion Miller, while they were driving to a party. Doe was a captain in the United States Army at the time of his death.

1. Richard Tucker Jr. (~1963-1987, electric chair): In 1963, Tucker stabbed his aunt, 61 year old Annie Armstrong, 14 times with scissors while burglarizing her home. He was released from incarceration in 1978. 6 months after being let out of prison, Tucker abducted 50 year old Edna Sandefur from a hospital parking lot while she was visiting her ill mother, and drove her to a remote warehouse. He robbed and raped Sandefur, and then beat her to death with an iron pipe. Tucker also had previous convictions of burglary and attempted rape.

10. William Tucker (1977-1987, electric chair): Tucker abducted 19 year old Kathleen Parry, a pregnant clerk, while he was robbing a convenience store she was working at. He forced Parry at knifepoint to withdraw money from the cash register, and dragged her into his car. When they drove to a chapel, Tucker stabbed her to death.
11. William Mitchell (1974-1987, electric chair): Mitchell accosted 50 year old Willard Williams while he was walking down a street and mugged him of $4. He then forced Williams to lay down and shot him execution style. In the following day, he held 34 year old Peggy Carr and her 14 year old son Christopher at gunpoint while they were opening their family owned store. Despite Peggy giving him $160, he made rape threats against her and forced the pair into a freezer. Both mother and son were shot several times and left for dead by Mitchell. Christopher died at the scene, while his mother survived her injuries.
12. Timothy McCorquodale (1974-1987, electric chair): McCorquodale and his entourage accused Donna Dixon, a 17 year old runaway, of stealing money from him and giving it to a black pimp that he thought she was having a relationship with. He bombarded Dixon with racist insults and sexual advances as he and his accomplices kidnapped her from a club. After she was taken to McCorquodale’s apartment, Dixon was bound, and repeatedly beaten and raped. They tortured her by cutting her breasts with razor blades, burned her body with cigarette butts and candle wax, and she was violated with a bottle. The abuse ended when McCorquodale broke her arms and legs, and strangled her to death with a clothesline. On death row, McCorquodale escaped with three other inmates, including Troy Gregg of the 1976 Furman vs Gregg infamy. After the group took refuge at a biker bar, McCorquodale beat Gregg to death in a fight with the help of a Outlaws Motorcycle gang member. Days after Gregg's murder, McCorquodale and the other surviving fugitives were recaptured hiding out at an Outlaws Biker's home.
13. James Messer Jr. (1979-1988, electric chair) To get back at his estranged wife for leaving him with their children, Messer kidnapped her niece, 8 year old Rhonda Tanner, while he was picking her up from school. He raped and severely beat Tanner in a forest and stabbed her to death.
14. Henry Willis III (1976-1989, electric chair): Willis and his accomplices abducted a policeman, 29 year old James Giddens, that was dispatched to stop their robbery of a food market. They took the captive officer near a lake, where he tried to escape by jumping into it. Willis and one of his partners shot Giddens dead while he was trying to swim to safety.
15. Warren McCleskey (1978-1991, electric chair): McCleskey robbed a jewelry store at gunpoint, and fired on the responding officers. One of the officers, 30 year old Frank Schlatt was killed in the shooting.
16. Thomas Stevens (1977-1993, electric chair): Stevens and Christopher Burger abducted a fellow soldier, 20 year old Roger Honeycutt, who was also working as a cab driver, when he picked them up from the enlisted men's club on Fort Stewart. Honeycutt was tied up with a cord, robbed of $20, and sodomized repeatedly by both of his captors. The pair then locked Honeycutt in the trunk of the cab, and drove it into a pond as they jumped out. Being unable to escape, Honeycutt drowned as his car sank into the pond's depths.
17. Christopher Burger (1977-1993, electric chair): As mentioned under Thomas Stevens' section, Burger assisted in the robbery, abduction, rape, and murder of Roger Honeycutt.
18. William Hance (1977-1994, electric chair): Hance, a former Marine that transferred himself to the Army, abducted at least 3 women, 32 year old Irene Thirkield, 24 year old Karen Hickman, and 21 year old Gail Jackson. Thrikield and Jackson were black prostitutes and Hickman was a white Marine servicewoman that was stationed in the same base as Hance. They were all raped and beaten to death with jack handles and tire irons. In a misguided attempt to throw off the police and attract media attention, Hance staged a convoluted hoax involving a race war between a gang of white vigilantes and a gang of black counter vigilantes. He tried to pretend that his victims were murdered from retaliatory killings between the two groups. Hance was also suspected in the murder of another woman in Indiana, but was never charged of it.
19. Nicholas Ingram (1983-1995, electric chair): Ingram broke into the home of 55 year old J.C. Sawyer and his wife Mary. He forced them to hand over $60 and their car keys at gunpoint, tied the couple together to a tree, and shot both of them. J.C. was killed, while Mary survived their ordeal. Ingram then stole their car and fled to California. While a fugitive hiding out in California, he committed another carjacking, and ran off to Nebraska, where he was detained for a DUI and deported back to Georgia to face trial. Due to being a British national, Ingram's execution sparked outrage in the United Kingdom.
20. Darrell Devier (1979-1995, electric chair): Devier lured 12 year old Mary Stoner into his car while she was walking home from school. He raped her in a forest, made an attempt to strangle her during their struggle, and crushed Stoner's head with a rock. Months before the murder, Devier was accused of raping a 13 year old girl, but the charges against him were dismissed from the lack of sufficient evidence.
21. Larry Lonchar (1986-1996, electric chair): During a dispute over gambling debts, Lonchar confronted his bookkeeper, 54 year old Wayne Smith, at his condo while pretending to be a FBI agent. In the altercation, he bound Wayne and his 24 year old son Steven with handcuffs, and shot and stabbed them to death. Wayne's girlfriend, 45 year old Margaret Sweat, called 911, and was also shot and stabbed to death while she was on the phone with the dispatcher. Another one of Wayne's sons was attacked in the incident, but he managed to survive his injuries.
22. Ellis Felker (1977-1996, electric chair): Evelyn Ludlam, a 19 year old cocktail waitress for the Holiday Inn, was lured into Flelker's clutches when he promised her work at his leather store. For religious reasons, Ludlam was disaffected with her job, and wanted a new line of work. Felker raped and strangled Ludlam to death and sexually mutilated her body. After he murdered Ludlem, Felker dumped her remains in a creek. He was registered sex offender with a sodomy conviction at the time of Ludlam's death.
23. David Cargill (1985-1998, electric chair): Cargill and his brother stormed a gas station, and forced a couple, 41 year old Danny and 29 year old Cheryl Williams, to lie on the floor. Cheryl was a clerk for the station, and Danny stopped by to help her close down after he put their sons to bed. The brothers shot the couple execution style, and stole a total of $482.79 from the register. They were also involved with several carjackings.
24. Terry Mincey (1982-2001, lethal injection): Mincey and his accomplices robbed a convenience store at gunpoint, and forced the clerk, 38 year old Paulette Riggs to empty the cash register into their bag. They shot her dead, and took 2 teenage siblings hostage that were present in the store. Coincidentally, a firefighter pulled up to the scene to refill his truck, and Mincey shot and wounded him. The siblings took the opportunity to escape and fled into a nearby field.
25. Jose High (1976-2001, lethal injection): High and his accomplices abducted 11 year old Bonnie Bulloch and his stepfather, 27 year old Henry Philips, from a gas station they were operating, after emptying the cash register. The robbers forced the pair into their car, reportedly taunted the captives about their intentions to kill them, and drove to a remote forest. They then shot Bulloch dead and wounded Philips.
26. Fred Gilreath Jr. (1979-2001, lethal injection): Gilreath's wife, 28 year old Linda, moved out of their home to escape their disintegrating marriage. When Linda returned with her father, 57 year old Gerrit Van Leeuwen, to pack up her belongings, Gilreath shot them both dead.
27. Byron Parker (1984-2001, lethal injection): Parker enticed 11 year old Christie Griffith into his car after she missed her taxi that was supposed to take her to her older brother's high school graduation. He bound Griffith to a tree, and raped and strangled her death, while his two year old son was waiting for him in their car.
28. Ronald Spivey (~1961-2002, lethal injection): While playing pool at a bar, Spivey got into a fight with 32 year old Charles McCook over money he perceived to have won, and shot him to death. A day later, he robbed a bank and took hostages. He fatally shot Bill Watson, a 40 year old off duty police officer that tried to stop him, and injured the manager, 21 year old Welton Allen. Allen tried fleeing to a nearby restaurant, and Spivey following him into it in pursuit. He fired on the establishment in an attempt to kill him, but missed and wounded an employee caught in the crossfire. Spivey then kidnapped a waitress and forced her to drive him to Alabama. She was rescued unharmed by local authorities when they pulled over and captured Spivey. A search of the stolen car found that Spivey stole a total of $360 in his robberies. His previous convictions include several counts of forgery, armed robbery, and auto theft.
29. Tracy Housel (1984-2002, lethal injection) Housel was a sexual predator and thief that victimized men and women alike between the ages of 18-45. He worked as a interstate truck driver, and picked up victims that he befriended from stops all across the country. They were driven to isolated locations, where Housel would bind, rob, and sodomize them. His killing methods were diverse and circumstantial, but Housel mostly used strangulations, beatings, and stabbings in the attacks. Housel was convicted in the deaths of Troy Smith (age unknown) and 44 year old Jean Drew, and is suspected in and/or confessed to 15 other murders. He was also responsible for several non fatal assaults and robberies. Like Nicholas Ingram, Housel's death sentence and execution sparked outrage in the United Kingdom due to him being a British national.
30. Wallace Fugate III (1991-2002, lethal injection): Fugate forced himself inside the home of his ex wife, 39 year old Pattie. He pistol whipped Pattie dozens of times and shot her dead in front of their 15 year old son. Unrelated to the case, but that son was beaten to death in the same house by his friends a year after Fugate's conviction.
31. William Putman (1980-2002, lethal injection): Purtman shot and killed 49 year old William Hodges on the side of a highway. Hours later, he snuck up on a married couple, 28 year old Kate Back and 22 year old David Hardin, sleeping at a rest stop in their car with their children (which included a 9 year old daughter, a 7 year old son, and an 11 month old daughter) and 14 year old niece. He shot David dead and tried to abduct Kate. When she resisted and screamed for her husband, Purtman shot her as well and fled the scene.
32. Larry Moon (1984-2003, lethal injection): According to prosecutors, Moon ambushed 34 year old Ricky Callahan while the later was walking to a pharmacy to buy headache medicine for his wife. Callahan was shot in the head during the attack and had $60 taken from his wallet. Moon was also suspected in the shooting deaths of Jimmy Hutcheson (age unknown) and Thomas DeJose (age unknown), several robberies, and the abduction and sexual assault of a female impersonator. The prosecution failed to convict him for the murder of DeJose on the grounds of self defense and the murder of Butcheson on the lack of sufficient evidence. His conviction for Callahan's murder is contested, as Moon and his supporters claim that a late hitman confessed to the killing.
33. Carl Isaacs (~1960s-2003, lethal injection): Isaacs, with the help of two of his brothers and a cellmate, escaped from the Maryland State prison, and fatally shot 19 year old Richard Miller when he tried to stop them from stealing a car. The group drove by a Georgia gas pump in the hopes of refilling their getaway car. However, the pump was empty, and decided to burglarize a nearby trailer belonging to the Alday family (which consisted of brothers, 62 year old Ned and 57 year old Aubrey, Ned's sons, 35 year old Jerry and 32 year old Chester, and Jerry's 26 year old wife Mary) while they were gone. When the family returned home, Isaacs and his accomplices held the entire family at gun point, gang-raped Mary several times, and shot them all dead. Isaacs had a very troubled history, and committed several burglaries and robberies as a teenager.
34. James Brown (~1968-2003, lethal injection): Brown went on a date with Brenda Watson, a 21 year old stripper. After they were drinking and partying together at a bar, Brown tied up Watson with nylon stockings, and raped and asphyxiated her by shoving panties down her throat. He had a long history involving violence towards women. One of his previous convictions involved an incident of him breaking into a woman’s home, and (non fatally) stabbing and sexually assaulting her. Brown also had a warrant at the time of Watson’s murder for aggravated robbery, kidnapping, and sexual assault charges when he lured another woman by posing as an artist in need of a model.
35. Robert Hicks (~1970s-2004, lethal injection): Hicks laid his eyes on 28 year old Joni Rivers while she was talking to her boyfriend using a grocery store payphone. He chased down Rivers when she tried to flee from him and nearly decapitated her in a frenzied stabbing attack. Rivers' shoes, shorts, and ring were taken and found in Hicks' car. Hicks was released from prison months earlier after serving a half of a 15 year sentence for sexually abusing a 16 year old girl.
36. Eddie Crawford (1983-2004, lethal injection): Crawford tried spending the night with one of his estranged wife's sisters after a drinking binge, but she ejected him from her home. Out of anger, he abducted Leslie English, her 2 year old daughter, from the girl's bedroom, and then raped and strangled her to death.
37. Timothy Carr (1992-2005, lethal injection): Carr and his girlfriend attended a party with 17 year old Keith Young. The couple decided that they wanted to rob the boy, and they lured him into a forest with the help of two other teenagers. Carr slit Young's throat, and then proceeded to beat him to death with a baseball bat. He and his accomplices stole a $125 paycheck and Young's car in the robbery.
38. Stephen Mobley (1991-2005, lethal injection): Mobley shot and killed 25 year old John Collins while robbing a Domino's Pizza restaurant he was managing. He had also held up 6 other restaurants and dry-cleaning shops at gunpoint in his month long crime spree.
39. Robert Conklin (~1981-2005, lethal injection): Conklin stabbed his boyfriend, 28 year old George Crooks, in the ear with a screwdriver in their apartment, and dismembered his body. In an attempt to get rid of the remains, he stuffed them in a garbage disposal in their kitchen and a nearby dumpster. At the time of Crooks' murder, Conklin was on parole from a 6 year sentence for armed robbery.
40. John Hightower (1987-2007, lethal injection): While under the influence of cocaine, Hightower shot his wife, 41 year old Dorothy, and his stepdaughters, 22 year old Sandra and 19 year old Evelyn Reaves, to death in their sleep.
41. William Lynd (1988-2008, lethal injection): Lynd got into an argument with his girlfriend, 26 year old Ginger Moore, over a planned vacation and shot her to death. While on the run in Ohio, he tried to hijack a car, and shot the driver, 42 year old Leslie Sharkey, in the process. Sharkey managed to crawl to safety, and notified the authorities of the attack. She died of her injuries a few days after the shooting.
42. Curtis Osborne (1990-2008, lethal injection): Osborne, a career drug dealer, shot his girlfriend's brother, 29 year old Arthur Jones, and Jones' girlfriend, 28 year old Linda Seaborne, dead in argument over money gained from a motorcycle sale. His death sentence was controversial, as Osborne claimed that his attorney denied him a plea bargain for a racist agenda.
43. Jack Alderman (1975-2008, lethal injection): In an attempt to collect a life insurance policy, Alderman beat his wife, 20 year old Barbara, to death with a wench.
44. Robert Newland (1986-2009, lethal injection): Newland went to the apartment of his girlfriend, 27 year old Carol Beatty, after a drinking binge, and tried to kiss her. When she rejected and slapped him, Newland stabbed and disemboweled her alive. Just before she succumbed to her injuries, Beatty used her own blood to identify Newland as her attacker to the first responders.
45. William Mize (1994-2009, lethal injection): Mize was a leader of a white supremacist gang called the National Vastilian Aryan Party, in which 34 year old Eddie Tucker had filed to join. When Tucker disobeyed his orders to burn down a "crack house" as part of an initiation ritual, Mize lured him into a forest and shot him dead.
46. Mark McClain (1994-2009, lethal injection): McClain robbed a Domino pizza parlor after ordering a pizza. He shot the manger, 28 year old Kevin Brown, dead and stole $130 from the register.
47. Melbert Ford Jr. (1986-2010, lethal injection): Ford had a very specific fantasy about robbing, abducting and then murdering his ex girlfriend, 30 year old Martha Matich, after forcing her beg for mercy. He decided to make his fantasies into a reality, and stormed the grocery store she worked at with the help of an accomplice he hired. Ford shot Matich and her niece, 11 year old Lisa Chapman, dead, and stole $579 from the register.
48. Brandon Rhode (1998-2010, lethal injection): Rhode and his accomplice Daniel Lucas broke into a house, and encountered the residents, 37 year old Steven Moss, and his two children, 15 year old Kristin and 11 year old Bryan. Bryan was home alone when the intruders arrived, and tried to fight them off with a baseball bat. Lucas and Rhodes quickly subdued the boy and shot him to death. Kristen and Steven were also shot dead when they returned home. Their bodies were discovered by Gerri, Steven's wife and the children's mother. The pair were career burglars, and previously targeted the Moss home weeks before the massacre.
49. Emmanuel Hammond (~1983-2011, lethal injection): Hammond, his girlfriend, and her cousin spotted 27 year old Julia Love broken down on the side of the road. They dragged her into their car after she declined their offer for a ride. Love was tied up, forced to withdraw $140 from an ATM, and raped. The attackers partially strangled Love and shot her to death in a remote forest. In exchange for having all charges dropped, Hammond's girlfriend agreed to testify against him and her cousin. He tried to hire a fellow inmate to permanently silence her testimony, but was foiled by prison officials. Hammond had numerous previous convictions, but my sources didn't disclose details.
50. Roy Blankenship (1978-2011, lethal injection): Blankenship climbed into a home of 78 year old Sara Bowen after breaking her window. He raped and beat Bowen, and penetrated her with a bottle. She succumbed to a heart attack from the stress of the assault.
51. Andrew DeYoung (1993-2011, lethal injection): Wanting to use their life insurance policies to start his dream business, DeYoung stabbed his parents, 42 year old Gary and 41 year old Kathryn, and his sister, 14 year old Sarah, to death, and unsuccessfully ordered his accomplice to kill his 16 year old brother Nathan. Nathan escaped through a window and went to a neighbor for help.
52. Troy Davis (1988-2011, lethal injection): Davis was sentenced to death for a crime spree involving several robberies, the non fatal shooting of a teenager, and the beating of a homeless man, Troy Young (age unknown). Larry MacPhail, a 27 year old police officer and security guard, was shot and killed when he intervened in an attempt to protect Young. Davis' execution was controversial, as he managed to amass a popular following that believed in his innocence during his time on death row. He previously plead guilty for a carrying concealed weapons charge, and Davis paid a $250 fine as part of a plea agreement to avoid prison time.
53. Andrew Cook (1995-2003, lethal injection): On a random whim, Cook walked up to a couple, 22 year old Grant Hendrickson and 19 year old Michele Cartagena, parked near a lake, and shot them both to death in their car.
54. Marcus Wellons (1989-2014, lethal injection): Wellons took an obsessive sexual interest in his neighbor, 15 year old India Roberts, and began to stalk and harass the girl in an attempt to groom her into a "relationship." At one point, he even pressured his girlfriend's 14 year old son to date her. His illicit pursuit of Roberts alarmed his girlfriend and she tried evicting him from their apartment. With his relationship in shambles, Wellons' behavior escalated beyond the breaking point. After he ransacked his now ex girlfriend's apartment and poured bleach on her clothes, Wellons ambushed and abducted Roberts while she was walking to school. He raped and strangled her to death with a telephone cord.
55. Robert Holsey (~1990s-2014, lethal injection): Holsey shot and killed Will Robinson, a 26 year old Sheriff's Deputy, during a robbery of a convenience store. At the time of the shooting, he was on parole for an armed robbery conviction.
56. Andrew Brannan (~1980s-2015, lethal injection): In 1998, Branner was pulled over for speeding by Kyle Dinkheller, a 22 year old deputy. While Dinkheller was trying to file a citation, Branner became belligerent, pulled an M1 carbine out of his truck, and opened fire. Dinkheller was killed in the shootout, but he managed to wound Branner in his return fire. Branner was a Vietnam combat veteran, and he tried to use PTSD as a defense for the fatal shooting of Dinkheller and previous domestic abuse charges from his ex wife.
57. Warren Hill Jr. (~1985-2015, lethal injection): Hill was given a life sentence when he shot and killed his girlfriend, 18 year old Myra Wright. His sentence escalated to death a few years later when he fatally beat his cellmate, 34 year old Joseph Handspike, with a nailed board. At the time of his own murder, Handspike was also serving a life sentence for shooting and killing a restaurant manager during a robbery.
58. Kelly Gissendaner (1997-2015, lethal injection): Out of a desire to leave their marriage and to collect a life insurance policy, Gissendan assisted her boyfriend in abducting her husband, 30 year old Douglas, from their home. Her boyfriend stabbed Douglas to death, and she set their car on fire to destroy his body. The couple were also charged with attempting to intimidate witnesses during the murder trial.
59.Marcus Johnson (1994-2015, lethal injection): After Johnson picked up 35 year old Angela Sizemore from a bar, he sexually assaulted her with a knife. Sizemore was stabbed 41 times in the attack, and her throat was cut. Her body was found in her car by a man walking his dog hours after the murder.
60. Brian Terrell (~1992-2015, lethal injection): Terrell forged up to $8,000 in checks using 70 year old John Watson's name. Watson, who was seeking a relationship with Terrell's mother, tried to make a deal that he wouldn't pursue any charges if the money was returned to him. According to prosecutors, Terrell broke into Watson's home, and beat and fatally shot him to avoid repaying the money. His execution caused controversy, as the defense attorneys claimed that the footprints at the scene were smaller then his feet, and that he was condemned only by what they perceived to be misused testimony from his cousin (that testified against him in exchange for a plea deal) and a neighbor (who allegedly claimed that they saw "someone else walk out of the home"). Those arguments were shut down by the courts, but embraced by anti death penalty activist groups and outlets. Regardless of his guilt or lack thereof, strong evidence points to him perpetrating similar armed robberies of other homes, and was on parole at the time of Watson's murder.
61. Brandon Jones (1979-2016, lethal injection): Jones was an accomplice to the above mentioned Van Solomon, and participated in the robbery that killed Roger Tackett.
62. Travis Hittson (1993-2016, lethal injection): Hittson, who was serving on the U.S.S. Forrestal, was convinced by a crewmate to kill Conway Utterbeck, a 20 year old fellow sailor, for the thrill of killing. When they were off duty, Hittson and his accomplice walked into the home of Herbeck's parents, and found Herbeck sleeping on the couch. Before they shot him to death, the pair bludgeoned Herbeck with a baseball bat. To prevent the body's identification, they chopped off his hands, feet, and head with a hacksaw, and dumped his dismembered remains in two separate burial sites across a 300 mile radius.
63. Joshua Bishop (1994-2016, lethal injection): Bishop and another man accosted 44 year old Leverett Morrison at a bar, and demand to have the keys to his jeep. When Morrison refused, the pair beat him to death. Bishop also orchestrated the beating death of 36 year old Ricky Wills for having intercourse with his prostitute mother. The prosecution declined to charge Bishop for Willis' murder, as they wanted to use it as evidence to help secure his death sentence for Morrison's slaying.
64. Kenneth Fults (1996-2016, lethal injection): Fults forced his way inside the home of 19 year old Cathy Bonds. He bound, gagged, and blindfolded Bonds with duct tape, and made an attempt to smother her with a pillow. When that failed, Fults shot Bonds in the head, stole her keys, and drove away with her car.
65. Daniel Lucas (1998-2016, lethal injection): Lucas was the accomplice to the above mentioned Brandon Rhode, and he assisted him in murdering Steven Moss and his children in their home.
66. John Conner (1982-2016, lethal injection): In a drunken rage, Connor beat his friend, 29 year old James White, to death with a whisky bottle and a stick while visiting him in his home. The two had gotten in fight when White refused to take Connor to a liquor store.
67. Gregory Lawler (1997-2016, lethal injection): Lawler and his girlfriend were walking home intoxicated after drinking heavily at a bar, and got into a fight. A witness called the police, and officers, 28 year old John Sowa and 38 year old Patricia Cocciolone, were sent to the scene. They carried Lawler's girlfriend to their car, and drove her to the couple's apartment. Lawler was allowed to walk home unescorted. When he arrived, Lawler grabbed an AR-15, and fired on the officers. Sowa was killed, while Cocciolone survived with crippling injuries and called for backup. The other officers besieged Lawler in his apartment, and he surrendered after a 44 minute standoff.
68. Steven Spears (2001-2016, lethal injection): Spears suspected that his girlfriend, 34 year old Sherri Holland, was cheating on him. He reacted to his suspicions by wrapping Holland's head with duct tape and suffocating her with a plastic bag in her home.
69. William Sallie (1989-2016, lethal injection): Sallie's ex wife, 19 year old Robin Moore, divorced him for his physical abuse and moved back to her family (consisting of her parents, 49 year old John and Linda (age unknown), and her siblings, 17 year old April and 10 year old Justin). He was able to acquire visitation rights to their 2 year old son from the courts, and used that pretext to attack the family. Sallie charged into the Moore family home, shot and killed John, wounded Linda and bound her to Justin with handcuffs, and kidnapped Robin and April. The sisters were both kept captive and sexually assaulted together in a trailer, but they were spared and released after a few hours.
70. J. Ledford Jr. (1992-2017, lethal injection): Ledford was welcomed inside a home by the wife of his neighbor, 73 year old Harry Johnston Jr.. He tied up the couple at knifepoint, stole an undisclosed amount of money and guns, kidnapped Johnston, and drove away with him in his truck. Johnston's body was later found near an abandoned building. He was half decapitated, had a knife embedded in his back, and covered with several minor stab wounds.
71. Carlton Gary (~1964-2018, lethal injection): Gary raped and murdered at least 8 mostly elderly women between 40-89 years old. Almost all of his victims were killed in their homes, but his youngest, 40 year old Marion Fisher of New York, was abducted while walking out of a bar. They were all strangled to death with nylon stockings, which is why Gary was given the “Stocking Slayer" epithet by the media. Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, including positive DNA tests, testimonies from surviving victims, fingerprints found on crime scenes, and semen samples, Gary still has a vocal following trying to proclaim his innocence. He had an extensive criminal history, which started with several arson, assault, and robbery charges as a teenager.
72. Robert Butts Jr. (1996-2018, lethal injection): Butts and his accomplice Marion Wilson carjacked Donovan Parks, a 24 year old off duty correctional officer, after he agreed to give them a ride home from Walmart. They forced Parks to exit the car and the shot him in the head execution style. Both Butts and Wilson were part of a Latin Kings set, and are believed to have killed Parks to gain more prestige from their gang. Butt's previous convictions include charges of shoplifting and burglary.
73. Scotty Morrow (1999-2019, lethal injection): Angry that his ex girlfriend, 26 year old Barbara Young, broke up with him for his abusive behavior, Morrow shot her, and her friend, 21 year old Tonya Wood, dead in their home. A third woman, 18 year old Latoyna Horn, was injured in the shooting. Young's two children, a 5 year old son and an 8 month old daughter, witnessed the killings, but were unharmed.
74. Marion Wilson Jr. (1999-2019, lethal injection): Wilson assisted Robert Butts, a fellow Latin King gangster, in the carjacking and shooting murder of officer Donovan Parks. He had a lengthy and very violent criminal history, which included the non fatal shootings of a Mexican migrant worker and a drug dealer during robberies, unprovoked assaults on a classmate and a youth worker, and an arson attack on an apartment complex. His friends noted that Wilson had a penchant for animal cruelty, and they reported seeing him shooting dogs on random whims.
75. Ray Cromartie (1994-2019, lethal injection): While robbing a grocery store, Cromartie and his accomplice shot two clerks, 50 year old Richard Slysz and Daniel Wilson (age unknown). Slysz died at the scene and Wilson survived with crippling injuries.
76. Donnie Lance (~1990s-2020, lethal injection): Lance broke down the door of his ex wife's, 39 year old Sandra, and fatally shot her boyfriend, 33 year old Dwight Wood Jr.. He then used the butt of his gun to club Sandra to death. According to court documents, Lance subjected Sandra to extreme abuse during their marriage, and reportedly kidnapped and tortured her with beatings, strangulations, and electrocutions on numerous occasions.
77. Willie Pye (~1985-2024, lethal injection): Pye's ex girlfriend, 21 year old Alicia Yarbrough, had a child with another man that he believed was his. Despite his suspicions, Yarbrough and their boyfriend pushed Pye out of the child’s life. In retaliation, Pye and two accomplice’s broke into Yarbrough’s ex boyfriend’s home to rob it, but found her alone with her infant. They abducted and robbed Yarbrough of her jewelry at gunpoint, raped her for several hours in a motel room, and shot her a total of 3 times in the head. Due to reports of him allegedly being cognitively disabled, Pye’s execution sparked some controversy. He was previously convicted of burglary.

Here is the list of the currently 73 inmates executed by the state of Alabama that I wrote for my post Furman death penalty project. Alabama has set plans to carry out additional executions in the next few months, and this list might be reposted with the updated information if they happen as scheduled.
Something that should also be clarified is the dates given here are an approximate timeline of their earliest known criminal activities to their executions rather then time spent on death row. Many of the cases here are quite graphic by nature, and I don't shy away from it in my descriptions. Please read at your own risk.
The states I have left are Georgia, Florida, Missouri, Virginia, Oklahoma, and the still in progress Texas. I'll probably post my list for Georgia next whenever I have time next week.
The currently executed 73 offenders:
1. John Evans III (~1976+-1983, electric chair): A year after Evans was paroled, he and another ex convict, Wayne Ritter, went on a two month long crime spree that involved 30 armed robberies, 9 kidnappings, and 2 extortion incidents. Their rampage ended when they shot dead 34 year old Edward Nassar in front of his daughters while robbing his pawn shop. Evans' execution was controversial, as it took 24 minutes and three pulls of the switch to electrocute him. Any information on his crimes before his 1977 spree is unavailable to me.
2. Arthur Jones (1981-1986, electric chair): Jones gunned down Vaughn Thompson, a 21 year old storekeeper, and William Waymon, a 72 year old cab driver, in two robberies.
3. Wayne Ritter (1976-1986, electric chair): Ritter was the accomplice of the above mentioned John Evans. After being released from prison, he assisted him in several robberies, abductions, and the murder of Edward Nassar. Like Evans, Ritter's earlier criminal history wasn't disclosed in the sources on hand.
4. Michael Lindsey (1981-1989, electric chair): Lindsey broke in the home of 64 year old Rosemary Rutland. After tying her up, he shot and stabbed Rutland to death, and stole her Christmas presents.
5. Horace Dunkins Jr. (1980-1989, electric chair): Dunkins abducted 26 year old Lynn McCurry, bound her to a tree, and raped her. He stabbed McCurry 66 times, and left her body on the tree she was tied to. His execution was a source of controversy, as Dunkins was allegedly cognitively disabled.
6. Herbert Richardson (1977-1989, electric chair): Richardson threw a pipe bomb into the home of one of his ex girlfriend's family members in retaliation for her breaking up with him. Her niece, 11 year old Rena Callins, was killed in the attack.
7. Arthur Julius (1972-1989, electric chair): In 1972, Julius beat his boss, 74 year old Herbert Chisenhall, to death during an argument over his wages. He was given a life sentence, but was able to leave custody in 1978 on a one day release. Julius took advantage of his leave to rape his cousin, 29 year old Susie Sanders, in her home. She was strangled to death during the assault.
8. Wallace Thomas (1976-1990, electric chair): Thomas and a partner abducted 21 year old Quenette Shehane from a convenience store. She was raped, robbed, and shot to death.
9. Larry Heath (1981-1992, electric chair): Out of a desire to marry another woman, Heath orchestrated the kidnapping of his 21 year old wife Rebecca (who was 9 months pregnant with their child) with the help of some men he hired. She was abducted from their home and shot in the head.
10. Cornelius Singleton (~1972-1992, electric chair): Singleton was condemned for the robbery of a Catholic monastery that ended with the fatal strangulation of a nun, 51 year old Ann Hogan. His execution was hotly contested by his lawyers and supporters, who have alleged misconduct in the trial and investigation. Despite the controversy, Hogan's stolen watch was found in Singleton's possession. Singleton was previously convicted for a 1972 incident involving arson and burglary.
11. Willie Clisby Jr. (1979-1995, electric chair): Clisby broke into the home of 58 year old Fletcher Handley, beat him to death with an ax handle, and left with $80 in hand.
12. Varnell Weeks (1981-1995, electric chair): Weeks abducted and carjacked 24 year old Mark Batts. He bound Batts, placed a pillowcase on his head, and shot him through it. While driving Batts' stolen car in Ohio, he was flagged down by police officers, and Weeks fired on them in the confrontation. In the shootout, Weeks was captured without any causalities to the responding officers. His execution was controversial, as his lawyers claimed that he was a paranoid schizophrenic.
13. Edward Horsley Jr. (~1976-1996, electric chair): After escaping from prison with Brian Baldwin, Horsley abducted 16 year old Naomi Rolon while she was hitchhiking. Horsley raped and dismembered Rolon with an ax, and ran her body over. Although Horlsey's culpability is an overwhelming certainty, the extent of Baldwin's alleged involvement is a significant source of contention. Horsley was previously convicted of a string of robberies that ended up with a non-fatal shooting of a police officer.
14. Billy Waldrop (1982-1997, electric chair): Waldrop snuck into the home of 72 year old Thurman Donahoo and shot him in the head. He then stole $130 and a 5-carat diamond ring. To destroy any evidence of his crime, Waldrop burned the house down, and fled to California. While in hiding, he was detained by the local law enforcement for a DUI and extradited back to Alabama to face trial.
15. Walter Hill (~1952-1997, electric chair): As a teenager in the early 50s, Hill beat Sam Atmore (age unknown) to death. He was given a 10 year sentence for that murder, and took part in an escape attempt that was temporarily successful because of the watchman's negligence. After his release, Hill became a career criminal and was involved with several abduction robberies, and wound up in a cycle of repeatedly being in and out of prison. During one of his incarcerations, Hill stabbed an unidentified inmate to death, but was cleared of any charges on the grounds of self defense. In 1977, Hill started an illicit "relationship" with a 13 year old girl, and sought the permission of her stepmother, 60 year old Willie Hammock, to marry but she refused. Out of anger, Hill shot Hammock, her 34 year old daughter Lois Tatum, and Lois' 36 year old husband John dead in their home, and abducted the girl and her 16 year old adopted brother. The brother managed to escape, but Hill kidnapped a motorist he encountered in Georgia. The man escaped captivity in North Carolina, and reported Hill and the abducted girl to the local police.
16. Henry Hays (1981-1997, electric chair): Hays was a member of a local Ku Klux Klan chapter, and the son of one of the most prominent KKK leaders in Alabama. In the area, the sentencing of a black man, who was accused of murdering a white policeman, kept on getting delayed due to a string of mistrials. Hays and other members of the KKK chapter interpreted it as a sign that blacks will be able to get away with murdering whites, and sought revenge by lynching a black person at random. The unfortunate victim was 19 year old Michael Donald, who was abducted while walking home from a gas station. Donald was beaten with a tree stump, strangled with a rope, and his throat slit by Hays and his fellow Klansmen. His body was hung on a nearby tree.
17. Steven Thompson (1984-1998, electric chair): Thompson abducted 25 year old Robin Balarzs, a friend's fiancee, from her home. After he tied up and gagged her, Thompson raped Balarz and penetrated her with a knife, shaved her head, and dragged her to death with his car over a distance of 3,000 feet. He stole Balarz's wedding ring and a dollar from her purse, and sexually mutilated her body.
18. Brian Baldwin (~1977-1998, electric chair): Baldwin was the accused accomplice of the above mentioned Edward Horsley, and allegedly helped him with the sex murder of Naomi Rolon after they escaped from prison together. As mentioned in Horsley's section, Baldwin's involvement with Rolon's killing remains hotly contested to this day, and he and his supporters alleged that he was set up by institutionalized racism and tortured into confessing by investigating police officers. He was previously in prison for stealing a car.
19. Victor Kennedy (~1980-1999, electric chair): Kennedy, a career burglar, and an accomplice, Darrell Grayson, broke into the home of 86 year old Annie Orr to search for money. They bound, beat, raped, and suffocated her with a pillow case. When they failed to find any money, Kennedy and Grayson left the residence empty handed.
20. David Duren (1983-2000, electric chair): Duren and an accomplice kidnapped 16 year old Kathleen Bedsole and her date, 17 year old Charles Leonard, and stole $20 that was given to them by Bedsole's father. The couple were tied together, and locked in the trunk for several hours. When Duren stoped his car, he shot both of the teenagers. Bedsole was killed, while Leonard managed to survive and escape.
21. Freddie Wright (1977-2000, electric chair): Wright was convicted of robbing a store owned by couple, 40 year old Warren and 37 year old Lois Green, with 3 other men. The Greens were tied together, dragged into a backroom, and shot to death. Their watches and $900 were stolen in the robbery. His execution was controversial, as his attorneys and supporters push that he was convicted both out of racism and the participants allegedly naming him to avoid death sentences.
22. Robert Tarver Jr. (1984-2000, electric chair): Tarver fatally shot 63 year old Hugh Kite, while he and an accomplice were robbing him outside of his store. Kite was just done closing his store when he was attacked, and had $80 taken from him.
23. Pernell Ford (1983-2000, electric chair): Ford forced himself into the home that 70 year old Willie Griffin shared with her 42 year old daughter Linda. He stabbed both of them to death after a struggle. Several undisclosed items were stolen from the Griffin home, and Ford used their car to flee to Illinois.
24. Lynda Block (1992-2002, electric chair): Block, her common law husband, George Sibley, and her 9 year old son were sitting in car that was parked in a Walmart parking lot. A passerby was concerned by Block's son apparently looking distressed, and reported them to the police. When a police officer, 38 year old Roger Motley, came to question them, Block and Sibley shot him to death. The couple was previously involved in assaulting and stabbing Block's ex husband in a dispute over their home, a crime they were on the run from at the time of Motley's murder.
25. Anthony Johnson (1984-2002, lethal injection): While Johnson and two unidentified men were robbing a jewelry store, they engaged in a gun-battle with the owner, 51 year Kenneth Cattrell, and killed him. Although Johnson's wasn't directly responsible for Cattrell's death and only acted as a lookout, he was the only member of the gang to be captured, and thus bore the brunt of the judicial retributions when he refused to testify against them.
26. Michael Thompson (1984-2003, lethal injection): During a nighttime convenience store robbery, Thompson kidnapped the clerk, 57 year old Maisie Gray. Thompson forced Gray into his car, drove her to a well, and tossed her inside it. He then shot a trapped Gray to death with his married girlfriend holding a torch for him. His girlfriend had a longstanding record for armed robberies, and Thompson's defense tried to use the argument that she goaded him into the killing or did it herself.
27. Gary Brown (1996-2003, lethal injection): Brown and a few other men went to the home of Jack McGraw, a 59 year old Korean War veteran, to "party." On numerous previous occasions, McGraw had paid them for sex acts. They planned on robbing McGraw's house after he passed out drunk, but he refused to drink as he had work the next morning. Undeterred, Brown and his accomplices attacked McGraw, and stabbed him a combined total of 78 times. More specifically, McGraw's back was stabbed 59 times, his throat and neck were slashed 16 times, and he had 3 cut wounds on his head. The group then stole $67 and a VCR set from his home.
28. Thomas Fortenberry (1984-2004, lethal injection): Fortenberry fatally shot four people, 51 year old Wilbur Nelson, 43 year old Robert Payne, Robert's 29 year old wife Nancy, and 21 year old Ronald Guest, while attempting to rob a gas station.
29. James Hubbard (~1957-2004, lethal injection): In 1957, Hubbard shot and killed 28 year old Carl Dockery in what was described as a "domestic disturbance." He was paroled in 1976 with the help of 62 year old Lillian Montgomery, a woman he befriended behind bars. Hubbard repaid the favor by shooting and killing her while robbing a store she owned in the following year. He stole $500 and her diamond watch, and tried to stage Montgomery's death as a suicide despite the fact that he shot her in the face, head, and shoulder.
30. David Hocker (1998-2004, lethal injection): Hocker was living in a motel and didn't have a car at hand. Thus, he asked his boss, 47 year old Jerry Robinson, to drive him around for an errand. When they were in the car together, Hocker stabbed Robinson to death, stole his credit card, and withdrew $400 from it to buy cocaine. Hocker had an extensive criminal history, but the specifics weren't given in my sources.
31. Mario Centobie (1995-2005, lethal injection): Centobie and another prisoner escaped from a Georgia prison during his 40 year sentence for the double kidnappings of his ex wife and son. They fled to Alabama, and were pulled over by local policemen. Centobie opened fire on them and killed Keith Turner, a 29 year old officer, and wounded another. The pair were recaptured in Georgia near the home of Centobie's ex wife. While awaiting trial, Centobie yet again escaped by seducing a guard, but was quickly recaptured.
32. Jerry Henderson (1984-2005, lethal injection): On his sister-in-law's payroll, Henderson lured her husband, 33 year Jerry Haney, outside of his house and shot him dead.
33. George Sibley Jr. (1992-2005, lethal injection): Sibley was the common law husband of the above mentioned Lynda Block, and assisted her in the killing of officer Roger Motley. He also took part in the assault of her ex husband.
34. John Peoples Jr. (1983-2005, lethal injection): Enraged that 34 year old Paul Franklin refused to sell him his car that he coveted, Peoples broke into his home, and beat him to death with a rifle. Peoples stole the car and abducted Paul's wife, 34 year old Judy, and their 10 year old son John. They were also beaten to death with Peoples' rifle.
35. Larry Hutcherson (1992-2006, lethal injection): Hutcherson broke into the home of 89 year old Irma Gray, and slit her throat. He stole her air conditioner and microwave in the robbery.
36. Aaron Jones (1978-2006, lethal injection): After being fired by them, Jones and his partner invaded the home of their former employers, 61 year old Carl and 45 year old Williene Nelson. They shot Carl and Willene dead and chopped their bodies into several pieces. The pair also shot their 3 children, 21 year old Tony, 13 year old Brenda, and 10 year old Charlie, and Carl's mother, 85 year old Annie, but they all managed to survive their injuries.
37. Darrell Grayson (1980-2007, lethal injection): Grayson was the accomplice of the previously mentioned Victor Kennedy, and partook in the rape and murder of Annie Orr and the burglary of her home.
38. Luther Williams (1988-2007, lethal injection): While John Kirk, a 63 year old WW2 veteran, was driving home from work, his truck broke down. He was found and abducted by Williams and 2 other men, and shot to death by them. The trio then stole money from Kirk's body and his truck.
39. James Callahan (1982-2009, lethal injection): Callahan kidnapped 26 year old Becky Howell, while she was walking from a club her fiance was performing to switch laundry that she left at a laundromat. Howell was raped and strangled to death.
40. Danny Bradley (1983-2009, lethal injection): When his wife was hospitalized, Bradley was left to care for his stepdaughter, 12 year old Rhonda Hardin, and his stepson. After he put his stepson to bed, Bradley sodomized Hardin and choked her to death with his bare hands.
41. Jimmy Dill (~1983-2009, lethal injection) Dill shot his dealer, 33 year old Leon Shaw, in the head during a deal gone bad, and stole $200 and a few bags of cocaine. Shaw was left comatose and died of his injuries 9 months later. Dill had an extensive criminal record for theft and drug possession.
42. Willie McNair (1990-2009, lethal injection): McNair and an accomplice went to the home of his occasional employer, 68 year old Ella Riley, to ask for some money. When Riley declined to give them any, McNair tricked her into letting him inside by asking for a drink of water. After walking in, he stabbed Riley in the neck and strangled her to death. The pair then fled with her purse.
43. Jack Trawick (~1972-2009, lethal injection): Trawick was convicted or credibly confessed to a minimum of 3 murders. His verified victims consist of 27 year old Aileen Pruitt, 21 year old Stephanie Gach, and 17 year old Betty Richards. In his known murders, he forcibly abducted his victims from public locations, and raped and tortured them. They were then stabbed and beaten to death with a hammer. Trawick bragged in graphic details about committing other murders on a website made for death row inmates, which he also used to taunt the victims' families. However, investigations into the alleged additional killings brought no results, and are now believed to have been fictionalized by Trawick for clout.
44. Max Payne (1992-2009, lethal injection): Payne robbed a store at gunpoint, and kidnapped the owner, 58 year old Braxton Brown. He took Brown to his sister's house and tried forcing him into giving them money. When his sister objected, Payne dragged Brown to a bridge, shot him in the head, and dumped his body in the nearby creek. A total of $1,085 in cash and many of Brown's belongings were stolen, which included bank deposit checks, rings, cigarettes, food stamps, and a handgun.
45. Thomas Whisenhant (~1963-2010, lethal injection): At the age of 16, Whisenhant fatally shot 72 year old Lexie Haynes in one incident and robbed an unidentified blind woman in another. For uknown reasons, the charges were dropped against him, and he was able to join the air force. A few years later, he assaulted Rose Covington, a 22 year old WAF servicewoman, with an ashtray, and was discharged and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor for the attack. Whisenhant was granted parole in 1972. Another couple years later, he went on a crime spree, and abducted 3 women that worked in convenience stores he robbed. His victims, 44 year old Venora Hyatt, 28 year old Patricia Hitt, and 23 year old Cheryl Payton, were all raped and shot in the head.
46. John Parker (1988-2010, lethal injection): Parker and his accomplice Kenneth Smith was hired to kill 42 year old Elizabeth Sennett, by her husband, who wanted to use her life insurance policy to fund his ministering. Her husband was also Parker's landlord. The pair tricked Sennett into letting them inside the house by pretending to be hunters inquiring about for a hunting spot, and stabbed her to death. Sennett's husband then gave Parker and Smith their stereo and video cassette recorders to make it look like a robbery.
47. Michael Land (~1990-2010, lethal injection): Land kidnapped 30 year old Candace Brown from her apartment after he cut her telephone line. He raped Brown, shot her in the head, and stole her purse. Land had prior convictions of burglaries and receiving stolen goods, and previously met Brown in prison when she ministered to him.
48. Holly Wood (~1981-2010, lethal injection): In 1994, Wood shot his ex girlfriend, 34 year old Ruby Gosha, at point blank range in front of her children at her mother's home. He had also (non-fatally) shot another ex girlfriend from outside her bedroom window several years before Gosha's murder. His criminal history was extensive, and had 18 different felonies on his record. Some of the charges pertained to incidents of assault.
49. Phillip Hallford (~1978-2010, lethal injection): Hallford was jealousy enraged that his 15 year old daughter, whom he had been sexually abusing since she was 7, was dating 16 year old Charles Shannon. He forced her to lure Shannon to a bridge, gunned him down, and stole his wallet. With the coerced help of his stepson, Hallford dumped Shannon's body into a river. As a memento, Hallford forced his daughter to wear a necklace with the shell casing used in the murder.
50. Leroy White (1988-2011, lethal injection): White shot his estranged wife, 35 year old Ruby, dead while she was visiting her sister out of anger at their upcoming divorce. Ruby's sister was wounded in the shooting. White had also previously shot and injured Ruby's leg during an argument.
51. William Boyd (1986-2011, lethal injection): Boyd and a partner broke into the home of married couple, 76 year old Fred and 41 year old Evelyn Blackmon, and duped them into thinking that Evelyn's daughter (whom Boyd previously dated against her mother's wishes) was kidnapped. They made the couple believe that they had to pay a $3,000 ransom for her safe return. The couple were then both tied up, forcibly separated into their captors' cars, and beaten and shot to death.
52. Jason Williams (1992-2011, lethal injection): Under the influence of cocaine, Williams shot his roommate, 46 year old Gerald Paravicini dead in the trailer they shared. William then walked over to his neighbors, the Barber family (consisting of parents, 50 year old Freddie and 45 year old Linda, and their sons, 22 year old Bryan and 16 year old Brad) and intruded into their home. He shot and killed Freddie, Linda, and Bryan, and wounded Brad. Cash and credit cards were taken and Williams fled in the family van.
53. Eddie Powell III (~1990s-2011, lethal injection): Powell broke into the home of 70 year old Mattie Wesson, and repeatedly sexually assaulted her. Wesson was beaten and shot in the attack, but she managed to drag herself to a neighbor's house for help before she succumbed to her injuries. Powell had several previous convictions for burglary, theft, and assault.
54. Derrick Mason (1994-2011, lethal injection): Mason held up a convenience store, and forced the clerk, 25 year old Angela Cagle to turn off the cameras and undress. However, he shot Cagle in the head before any assault could occur. He then tried to open the register, but ran off when he failed to open it.
55. Christopher Johnson (2005-2011, lethal injection): To avoid paying child support and to spite his estranged wife, Johnson smothered his 6 month old son Eilas with his fingers, and struck him in the head.
56. Andrew Lackey (2005-2013, lethal injection): After being told about the existence of a vault inside the home of Charles Newman, a 80 year old WW2 veteran, by Newman's grandson, Lackey decided to steal it from him. He invaded Newman's house, and shot and stabbed him 70 times in the ensuring confrontation. Despite Lackey waiving his appeals and actively petitioning for his own execution, his death sentence attracted controversy due to him being diagnosed with Asperger's.
57. Christopher Brooks (1992-2016, lethal injection): Brooks snuck into the apartment of 23 year old Jo Campbell. He sexually assaulted Campbell in her bedroom, and bludgeoned her to death with a barbell. Several items, including a credit card, were stolen from the scene.
58. Ronald Smith Jr. (1994-2016, lethal injection): Smith and some accomplices robbed a convenience store, and fatally shot the clerk, 26 year old Casey Wilson. According to Smith's attorneys, Smith and Wilson were allegedly involved in a love triangle with a local stripper. If such accounts are to be believed, he shot him dead in a dispute over her, and Smith staged it as a robbery to avoid embarrassing his parents. However, the stripper strongly denied having any connections with both men. His execution sparked controversy, as witnesses reported him coughing and heaving for 13 minutes during it.
59. Thomas Arthur (1982-2017, lethal injection): Arthur's married girlfriend hired him to kill her husband, 35 year old Troy Wicker, for his insurance policy. He gunned down Wicker while he was sleeping in his bedroom. To mislead investigators, Wicker's wife claimed that an intruder broke into her home, shot her husband dead, and raped her.
60. Robert Melson (1994-2017, lethal injection): Melson and his partner held up a Popeyes store at gunpoint. They rounded up the employees, 23 year old Darrell Collier, 18 year old Tamika Collins, 17 year old Nathaniel Baker, and 17 year Bryant Archer, into a freezer, and shot them. Archer was the sole survivor, and identified Melson's accomplice, a former employee, to the police. Although Melson's accomplice was initially given a life sentence due to him being a minor at the time, he was later also sentenced to death for killing a cellmate, and is currently awaiting execution.
61. Torrey McNabb (1997-2017, lethal injection): McNabb skipped bail when he was facing charges for receiving stolen property and drug possession. He was tracked down by a bondsman sent to bring him back to court, but he shot at him when he appeared at his doorsteps. The bondsman then called the police for support. One of the responding officers, 30 year old Anderson Gordon, was killed in the standoff with McNabb.
62. Michael Eggers (2000-2018, lethal injection): Eggers and his ex employer, 67 year old Bennie Murray, were in talks about him returning to his former job at her carnival. While Murray was driving Eggers and his 15 year old son, they got into an argument. During the fight, Murray slapped Eggers, which enraged him. He beat and choked her with his hands until she went unconscious, and tossed Murray out of her car. Eggers continued to beat and kick Murray, and crushed her throat with a tree branch. After she was killed, Eggers stole money from Murray's purse, and drove away in her car.
63. Walter Moody (~1972-2018, lethal injection): In 1972, Moody was building a bomb to kill an auto dealer that repossessed his car. However, the bomb exploded prematurely, and critically injured Moody's then wife instead. Although Moody was cleared of charges relating to the construction of the bomb, he was still convicted of it being in his possession. His appeals were thrown away, which gave him a resentment against the justice system. After Moody was released from prison, he murdered a federal judge, 58 year old Robert Vance, and a civil rights attorney, 42 year old Robbie Robinson, and injured Vance's wife, in two separate bombings. To disguise his attacks, Moody sent bombs and hate letters to various NAACP targets.
64. Domineque Ray (1992-2019, lethal injection): Ray shot and killed two brothers, 18 year old Ernest and 13 year old Reinhard Mabins, for refusing to join his gang. In the following year, Ray and his gang members kidnapped 15 year old Tiffany Harville from her home and raped her. Her throat was slit and she was dumped in a remote cotton field.
65. Michael Samra (1997-2019, lethal injection): During an argument over a pick up truck, Samra and his teenage friend shot and killed his friend's father, 39 year old Randy Duke, and step mother, 29 year old Dedra Hunt. The pair also slit the throats of Dedra's two children, 7 year old Chelsea and 6 year old Chelisa.
66. Christopher Price (~1990-2019, lethal injection): Price invaded the home of Bill Lynn, a 57 year old pastor, while he was busy wrapping Christmas presents for his grandchildren. He stabbed Bill 30 times with a sword and injured his wife Bessie when they confronted him. Despite being only 19 at the time, Price had an extensive criminal history that involved trespassing, auto theft, and "criminal mischief."
67. Nathaniel Woods (~2004-2020, lethal injection): A squad of 4 police officers, 58 year old Carlos Owen, 40 year old Harley Chisholm III, 37 year old Michael Collins, and 33 year old Charles Bennett, were searching a drug house that Woods, a long time dealer, had been operating in. As they were arresting Woods, one of his associates opened fire on them and killed Chisholm, Bennett, and Owen. Collins was wounded, but managed to flee to safety. Wood's execution was extremely controversial, as he wasn't the triggerman in the shootings. His supporters and the shooter himself claimed that he was an entirely innocent party, while the prosecutors pushed that he deliberately lured the officers to their deaths.
68. Willie Smith III (1991-2021, lethal injection): Smith kidnapped 22 year old Sharma Johnson at gunpoint near a bank, and forced her to withdraw $80 from an ATM machine. He locked Johnson in the trunk of her own car, and shot her dead while she was trapped in it. The car was then burned to destroy the evidence.
69. Matthew Reeves (1996-2022, lethal injection): Reeves and two other men pretended to be hitchhikers on a remote highway as a ruse to lure motorists. The target they ensnared was 38 year old Willie Johnson Jr. They robbed Johnson of $360 when he stopped to pick them up, and Reeves shot him to death with a shotgun. Reeves then attended a party reportedly still covered with Johnson's blood, and celebrated by pretending to pump the gun and mockingly mimicked his death throes to the other guests.
70. Joe James Jr. (1993-2022, lethal injection): James tracked down his ex girlfriend, 26 year old Faith Hill, at her friend's apartment. She was in the company of her children, her friend, and her friend's children. The friend shielded the children from James with her body, while Hill tried desperately to calm him down. Despite her efforts, she was shot dead. His execution sparked controversy for it taking over 3 hours to complete, and caused the state of Alabama to delay executions until 2023. James was previously arrested and reported several times for harassing Hill's family, which included an incident of him burglarizing her grandmother's home.
71. James Barber (2001-2023, lethal injection): Barber assaulted 75 year old Dorothy Epps, who was both his ex girlfriend's mother and a former employer, with a claw hammer in her home. Despite her efforts at fighting him off, Epps was beaten to death, and Barber stole her purse.
72. Casey McWhorter (1993-2023, lethal injection): McWhorter conspired with a 15 year old friend and a 16 year old friend to kill 34 year old Edward Williams, the father of the 15 year old. The group tried to force Williams to had over a safe, but he tried to fight back. They shot him a total of 11 times with a .22 rifle equipped with a makeshift silencer in his home and took his truck, wallet, and an undisclosed amount of money. The stolen truck was destroyed in order to sell the parts for scrap metal.
73. Kenneth Smith (1988-2024, nitrogen hypoxia): Smith assisted John Parker in the contract killing of Elizabeth Sennett on the behalf of her husband. His case attracted controversy when he survived a botched execution in 2022, and received international attention for being the first inmate in history to be executed with the controversially experimental nitrogen hypoxia method.

(This case has been written about before, but not since 2022. For another post about the Fowler twins, try this one).
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The Removal
On June 20th, 2016, police arrived at the home of Patricia Fowler, who lived on Bryant Street, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They were acting under orders from the Allegheny County's Department of Children, Youth and Families (CYF) to remove all of Fowler's children from her custody on the grounds of medical neglect. All four children in her home had serious, chronic medical conditions, and between them, they had missed more than seventy-two doctor's appointments. The children were apparently taken into foster care without incident.
A couple weeks later, on July 6th, CYF contacted the police again. According to them, there were supposed to be six children living in the Fowler home, not four. Missing from the household were fraternal twins Ivon and Inisha, who would have been seventeen years old at the time. The police returned to Patricia Fowler's house, this time to do a welfare check.
“I figured it was a simple misunderstanding, and when we first talked to her, she was great. She invited us in the house showed us around and said, ‘Here's all the information,’” Police Detective Leo Johe later told the media.
Fowler initially told the police that she had sent Ivon and Inisha to live with relatives "down south" in North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia, a claim that was investigated and proven to be false. The twins were now officially declared missing, and Fowler was brought in for formal questioning.
Gone
Fowler was not able to provide any recent pictures of the twins. They had no school pictures, no candid pictures, no family portraits. The only pictures that were able to be found of them depict the twins as tiny infants, likely taken shortly after their births in 1998. There was no evidence that they had been living in the home at any recent time; the twins had likely been missing for a very long time before the authorities- or anyone- noticed their absence.
Ivon was definitely in Fowler's household as late as 2000. At the age of two, Ivon was scalded in the bath, causing burns to 46% of his body. His mother did not call an ambulance until the next day; Ivon spent over a month in the hospital before being discharged. Fowler said that the scalding was an accident that took place while an older sibling was attempting to bathe him.
This incident led to both him and his twin sister being temporarily removed from Fowler's care, but both were returned by CYF a few days later. CYF did not report the incident to the police, but remained in contact with Fowler for years afterwards in regards to her children's truancy from school. Investigation into Ivon and Inisha's school enrollment records found no evidence that they had ever been enrolled at, or attended, any school. There was no activity related to either of their social security numbers.
Family members reported last seeing the twins around 2002 or 2003; at the time, they would have been four or five years old. Ultimately, the date of last contact entered into their missing persons reports was September 11th, 2006, around the time that a social worker claimed to have seen the twins in their mother's home. However, this date is questionable; the social worker who said that they saw the twins in 2006 later admitted that they may have been mixed up, and that the little boy they thought was Ivon did not have the scarring that would have resulted from his extensive burn injuries. Additionally, both of Fowler's landlords from the 2006-2015 period asserted that neither of them had seen either Ivon or Inisha at any point. In my mind, this makes 2002-2003 a more likely timeframe for the twins' disappearance.
Changing Stories
Patricia Fowler must have realized the trouble she was now in, and quickly changed her story. She claimed that she sold her children to a woman, "Barbara," for $2,000, an exchange facilitated by a man she met at a bar. When she was informed that child-selling was a crime, she retracted her story, and then said that she had become confused during her interrogation due to a learning disability, and that "I didn't sell my kids and they're not missing." In August of 2016, Fowler was charged with "endangering the welfare of children, obstructing a child welfare investigation and concealing the whereabouts of the children."
In an interview with local media, Fowler said that she had given the children to a woman named "Sheryl Willis," a "friend of the family," who took the children back to North Carolina with her, "about ten years back." None of Fowler's claims about her children being in the care of other people could be verified by investigators.
The authorities then got Facebook messages and texts from a young man who said that he was Ivon, and that he and his sister were living in Georgia. These communications were determined to have been a hoax; "Ivon" was really Fowler's older son, eighteen-year-old Datwon, who was arrested for impersonating his missing younger brother. Datwon was charged with "intimation, relation or obstruction in child abuse cases, criminal conspiracy, obstructing administration of law or other government function, and giving false identification to law enforcement." He admitted that he had pretended to be Ivon, and told police that he had done it so that law enforcement would stop "bothering" his family with inquiries into his siblings' whereabouts.
First One, Then the Other
In 2017, most of the charges against Patricia Fowler were dropped, as it was deemed unfeasible to prosecute her for child abuse, when there was insufficient evidence that the twins had encountered foul play. She pled guilty to charges of "endangering the welfare of a child, unsworn falsification and public assistance false statements," the latter two charges relating to her false statements to investigators, and welfare fraud in the form of collecting benefits meant for the twins even after the date they were declared missing.
Because Ivon and Inisha were supposed to be seventeen at the time of the police's initial removal, the other four minor siblings taken into care by CYF were all younger than the twins, and could offer little witness testimony for investigators. Datwon, however, did provide some insight into the twins' condition shortly before their disappearances. He said that he had last seen them over a decade prior, and that at that time, both of them were "sick." Two other siblings stated that one twin and then the other were simply "gone" from the house one day, as if they never had been. Because of these testimonies, police officers investigating the Fowler twins believe that they are no longer alive. Patricia Fowler's mother told WPXI News, "I sure do want to know the truth, but if she don't want to tell it, that's up to her. I turned it over to God, so it's in God's hands."
Ivon Fowler was born 10/23/1998. He would be twenty-five years old today. He was last seen aged seven or younger. He is a black male with black hair and brown eyes. He would have notable burn scars on his face and hands.
Inisha Fowler was born 10/23/1998. She would be twenty-five years old today. She was last seen aged seven or younger. She is a black female with black hair and brown eyes.
Sources:
https://charleyproject.org/case/inisha-v-fowler
https://charleyproject.org/case/ivon-d-fowler
https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/investigators-still-searching-2-years-after-penn-hills-twins-reported-missing/788057168/
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/mother-of-twins-whove-been-missing-10-years-gets-probation/
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Here is a list of the death row inmates executed by the state of California since 1976. I have plans for making a comprehensive list of almost every offender condemned by the state, and posting it to this sub. However, since nearly ~1,100 offenders (the third highest in the US and only slightly behind Texas and Florida) have been sentenced to death by California since the 70s, it would be a project that likely won't come to fruition for a long time.
The 13 executed inmates:
1.Robert Harris (1992, gas chamber): Harris committed his first murder in 1975 when he killed his brother's roommate, 19 year old James Wheeler, after beating him for 6 hours. He was given a voluntary manslaughter conviction, and was released on 1978. A few months after his release, Harris and his brother abducted two boys, 16 year old John Mayeski and 16 year old Michael Baker, shot them dead, and stole their car for a getaway vehicle in their planned bank robbery. In a cruel twist of irony, Baker's father Steven was one of the officers that apprehended Harris and his brother.
2.David Mason (1993, gas chamber): In his first wave of killings, Mason murdered 3 elderly women, 75 year old Antoinette Brown, 75 year old Dorothy Lang, and 73 year old Joan Picard, and a WW1 veteran, 83 year old Arthur Jennings (whom he previously had a sexual relationship with), through strangulations and beatings while robbing them. While he was preparing to go on trial, Mason beat and strangled another inmate, 24 year old Boyd Johnson (a convicted rapist), with a towel out of fear that he was an informant.
3.William Bonin (1996, lethal injection): Bonin was a serial killer who murdered a minimum of 21 boys between the ages of 12 to 19, though one unidentified victim might have been as old as 27. With the assistance of 3 accomplices, Bonin lured his victims into his van with promises of rides to their destinations or payment for sexual services. They were then raped, beaten with tire irons, stabbed with ice picks, and garroted with their own t-shirts. Some were burned with cigarette lighters and had drano poured into their throats. A publicity chaser, Bonin disposed of the bodies on freeways so that they would be found and broadcasted on the news. He had a long history of sexual predations dating back to his childhood, which included several prior convictions of non fatally abducting boys, and had raped another serviceman in the Vietnam War.
4.Keith Williams (1996, lethal injection): Williams and his accomplice went to the home of 31 year old Miguel Vargas to ostensibly buy his car and to sell him a gun. After some negotiations over the prices, Williams and his accomplice turned violent and shot Miguel and his 43 year old cousin Salvador dead. The pair also abducted Miguel's girlfriend, 25 year old Lourdes Meza, forced her into the car they stole from the couple, and drove to the outskirts of Tuolumne City. He then raped Meza, shot her 4 times in the chest, and left her body in a field. Prior to the killing spree, Williams, his accomplice, and his ex wife found themselves stranded on a remote highway, and robbed the campers that tried to help them at gunpoint. He also was arrested for burglary several times as a teenager and stabbed a friend a few years before the murders.
5.Thomas Thompson (1998, lethal injection): Thompson was executed for the murder of 20 year old Ginger Fleischli, who was found with stab wounds to her head and had signs of sexual assault on her body. His execution was contentious, as he has a vocal following insisting on his innocence. However, it is agreed upon that Thompson and Fleischli had consensual relations on the night of her murder, as corroborated by Thompson's own account and eyewitness testimony seeing them hooking up together at a bar.
6.Jaturun Siripongs (1999, lethal injection): Siripongs broke into a retail store that he formerly worked at. He strangled the manager Packovan Wattanaporn, a 36 year old Thai immigrant, with a cord, stabbed her employee Quach Nguyen, a 52 year old Vietnamese immigrant, in the neck and head, and stole jewelry and credit cards.
7.Manny Babbitt (1999, lethal injection): In the last of a string of robberies, Babbitt beat and raped 78 year old Leah Schendel in her apartment. She succumbed to a heart attack from the overwhelming fear and pain from the assault. Babbitt had also raped another woman in his robbery spree. Due to being a decorated Vietnam veteran that was diagnosed with PTSD, he had attracted a sympathetic following.
8.Darrell Rich (2000, lethal injection): Rich abducted, raped, and murdered 4 women and girls between the ages of 11 to 27. His killing methods were very diverse and circumstantial. Victims 19 year old Anette Edwards and 17 year old Patricia Moore were murdered by their skulls crushed in beatings with rocks, 27 year old Linda Slavik was shot to death, and Rich threw 11 year old Annette Selix off a bridge while she was still alive. In addition to his murders, Rich also non fatally abducted and assaulted several other women and girls.
9.Robert Massie (2001, lethal injection): Massie was originally sentenced to death in 1965 when he robbed and shot dead 48 year old Mildred Weiss in front of her husband. His first death sentence was overturned during the temporary nationwide banning of capital punishment following the 1972 Furman vs Georgia decision. In 1978, Massie was released from prison for good behavior, but held up a liquor store in the following year. He shot and killed the owner, 61 year old Boris Naumoff, which gave him his second and third death sentence in a trial and a retrial.
10.Stephen Anderson (2002, lethal injection): In 1977, while serving in the Utah State Prison for a burglary conviction, Anderson got into a fight with fellow inmate Robert Blundell (age unknown), and stabbed him to death. Two years later, Anderson escaped from prison, and fled to California. He intruded into the home of 81 year old Elizabeth Lyman, and shot her in the head. Anderson also professed to being a contract killer responsible for 7 murders in Nevada and Utah. Although he was never charged for it, Utahn officials have tentatively linked the 1980 murder of 26 year old Timothy Glashien to Anderson.
11.Donald Beardslee (2005, lethal injection): In 1969, while living in Missouri, Beardslee went out dancing with 52 year old Laura Griffin, and took her to his home. He then stabbed, strangled, and drowned Griffin in his bathtub. Beardslee plead guilty to a second degree murder charge, and served 7 years out a 19 year prison sentence. A few years after his 1977 release, he made his way to California. He assisted in the 1981 abductions of two women, 23 year old Stacie Benjamin and 19 year old Patty Geddling, over a drug related dispute. Beardslee shot Benjamin in the head with a sawed off shotgun, and stabbed Geddling to death after a failed attempt to strangle her with wire. To mislead investigators, Beardslee and his accomplices pulled down the pants of the bodies, and tried to stage their killings as a sex crime.
12.Stanley Williams (2005, lethal injection): One of the cofounders of the Crips street gang, Williams was heavily involved with organized crime at a young age. Although he orchestrated several murders, Williams was convicted of the killings of a store clerk, 26 year old Albert Owens, and the Yangs, a family of Taiwanese immigrants. Williams and his crew shot and killed Owens at a 711, and gunned down 76 year old Yen-Yi, his 63 year old wife Tsai-Shai, and their 43 year old daughter Yu-Chin at their family owned motel.
13.Clarence Allen (2006, lethal injection): Allen organized the robbery of a supermarket owned by one of his friends with the help of an employee, 17 year old Mary Kitts (who was also dating Allen's son at the time). When Kitts had second thoughts, Allen ordered one of his accomplices to strangle her to death. After he and his gang were caught and facing trial, Allen arranged for a cellmate to eliminate the key witness, 27 year old Bryon Schletewitz (who was also the owner's son), against him. Schletewitz and two of his employees, 17 year old Josephine Rocha and 18 year old Douglas White, were shot dead at the supermarket, and two others were wounded.
Californian death row inmates executed by other states:
1.Kevin Malone (1999, lethal injection): Malone kidnapped at least 4 men and women, 62 year old William Parr, 55 year old Myrtle Benham, 51 year old Minnie White, and 39 year old James Rankin, in several robberies across California and Missouri. Most of his victims were shot in the head, but Benham was raped and beaten to death with a pipe. Belongings such as cars and credit cards were taken in the attacks. He was given a death sentence in both states, but chose to be incarcerated in California's San Quentin. Marlone was deported to Missouri when governor Mel Carnahan signed his death warrent. Beyond his murders, he was involved in several non fatal robbery abductions and robbed a judge at gunpoint in the man's own home.
2.Alfredo Prieto (2015, lethal injection): Prieto was both a serial killer of young women and a member of the Pomona Northside street gang. His sexual crimes involved the abductions, rapes, and shooting deaths of at least 4 females, 24 year old Tina Jefferson, 22 year old Rachael Raver, 19 year old Stacey Siegrist, and 15 year old Yvette Woodruff. Raver and Siegrist’s partners, 22 year old Warren Fulton III and 21 year old Anthony Gianuzzi, were also murdered during their kidnappings. The other known victims, 27 year old Manuel Sermeno, and couple, 71 year old Lula and 65 year old Herbert Farley, were shot dead during robberies. In the home invasion that killed Woodruff, Prieto and his fellow gang members also abducted her 17 year old friend and the friend’s 33 year old mother. The mother and daughter pair were gang-raped, shot and stabbed together, but they managed to escape with their lives. Prieto was sentenced to death in both California and Virginia, but stayed in California’s San Quentin until his death warrant was signed in Virginia. He had also shot and injured 3 gang members over his suspicions of them sleeping with his wife, but was lightly sentenced due to the victims' gang affiliations.

Many Eagles fans, especially users in this sub, seem to be against the idea of drafting an offensive tackle with our first round pick. They often point to the secondary as our biggest need, citing things like we had the second worst YDS/G allowed in the league last year. Well, allow me to walk you through this thought process.
Firstly I agree with you; our passing defense was horrible. But why? It’s well documented that the team had issues with covering passes over the middle, primarily in the linebackers’ zones. Also, the pass rush had a tougher time getting home and disrupting the quarterback than they did in 2022. And even worse, we had ourselves a little defensive coordinator shuffle mid-season, swapping out Sean Desai for Matt Patricia, and problems only seemed to worsen. Well I don't think drafting an outside CB at pick #22 will change any of those issues much, especially in 2024. Not a lot of rookie cornerbacks come into the league as difference makers, and even less that are picked after the first 20 picks. Furthermore, we have already invested in the secondary for 2024. That investment began in 2023 when we drafted Sydney Brown and Kelee Ringo, signed some promising UFDAs like Eli Ricks and Mekhi Garner, signed CJGJ this week, and signed Isaiah Rodgers last summer after being waived by the Colts. Are these premier moves that excite the average fan? Mostly no. But they are moves to address the secondary, and outside cornerback specifically with Ringo, Rodgers, and Ricks.
We haven't done the same at the offensive tackle position, and that’s mostly due to the success of the starters that we’ve been lucky to have over the years, along with the confidence that three separate head coaches have had in offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland. And though he is rightfully regarded as the best in the business among offensive line coaches, I want to caution you all; that does not mean Stoutland can turn water into wine. Since Stoutland joined the organization in 2013, the Eagles have drafted the following players as tackles, or as players with experience and/or ability to play tackle:
• Tyler Steen (2022)
• Jack Driscoll (2020)
• Prince Tega Wanogho (2020)
• Andre Dillard (2019)
• Matt Pryor (2018)
• Jordan Mailata (2018)
• Halapoulivaati Vaitai (2016)
• Lane Johnson (2013)
As good as Stoutland is at developing offensive lineman, there were only two tackles since 2013 that have had sustained success at the position, and they just so happens to be the two guys we currently have starting at either end of the line: Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata. The rest of the players either transitioned almost exclusively to guard, floated around the league as backups, or just straight-up busted. And though it doesn't seem to be as glaring of a need due to the success of Lane and Mailata, the truth is we are one injury away from an extremely disadvantaged offensive line. Tackle is arguably the second-most important position to our offense after quarterback, and ours have been two of the game's best. Both Lane and Mailata are incredible success stories and it's important to know their histories.
Lane Johnson was a quarterback when beginning his college career, then transitioned to tight end, and finally offensive tackle when he got to Oklahoma. With only one year of starting experience, he was able to put his extremely rare traits on display against some of the best competition in college football. It was enough to garner a #4 overall selection, yet still not enough to convince a couple teams to take him as the first tackle in the draft. Enter Jeff Stoutland, who, along with the tutelage of veteran tackle Jason Peters, helped mold Lane into one of the most dominant offensive tackles of this era. Lane has been the unquestioned stalwart on the right side of the line ever since.
Skip ahead to the year 2018, and the Super Bowl champs take a chance on an Australian rugby player in the 7th round named Jordan Mailata. Seen as a project with outstanding physical traits, Mailata had just begun learning the game as a part of the NFL's program to develop talent worldwide. Well, it was easy to see why he became a talking point of the draft cycle. In his workouts, Mailata displayed every single trait that elite NFL offensive tackles possess. He was a classic example of a "dancing bear." A mammoth human being with light feet, quickness, balance, and strength. Stoutland was able to fill in the rest with the fundamental knowledge of the game and the proper technique for things like hand placement and kick steps, with JP and Lane there to offer guidance from veteran perspectives.
Knowing that Mailata would take time to develop, and with a 38-year old and oft-injured Peters manning the blindside, Howie Roseman invested in the tackle position again in the first round of the 2019 draft. With pick #22, the Eagles selected Washington State's Andre Dillard as the 2nd OT off the board. Dillard was billed as a pass protection ace; displaying footwork like that which you would see on a dancing bear; he could kickstep out deep to set the age and had enough agility to mirror and adjust to opposing pass rushers if they tried to counter inside.
Though elite among college tackles in pass protection, he had some glaring holes in his game. Dillard had very little experience playing with his hand in the dirt, as the Washington State offense focused on a passing attack. Dillard also lacked anchor; that is the ability to absorb and stop a bull rush from opposing pass rushers. The team gave him opportunities to play and develop, but he was limited to only being able to play on the left since that's all he's ever played in his young career. But worse, the bullrush was a problem. Changes needed to be made to his game.
In 2020, Dillard showed up to training camp stronger, packing on weight to strengthen his anchoring ability. He was actually projected to begin the season as the team’s starting left tackle. Unfortunately, an injury caused him to miss the entirety of the season before testing out his new body composition.
That year, Mailata secured himself as the primary backup to both tackle positions, as he had been working on both sides since beginning his football journey. When Jason Peters went down for two separate stints on injured reserve, Mailata showed that he was finally ready to play meaningful snaps in the NFL and Dillard's future on the team began to come into question. In 2021, Dillard was pushed to compete with Mailata to start at left tackle, but the strength and weight Dillard added over the past 2 years had caused him to lose some of his athletic ability that made up the best parts of his game. He was relegated to a backup role, where he stayed until his rookie contract expired after 2022 season. (Spoiler alert, but the issues continue after the Titans signed Dillard in 2023 to play as their starting left tackle. Dillard led the league in sacks allowed while being benched for 5 games.)
It's not to say you can't find a tackle later in the draft and coach them up; that's the goal of any prospect you invest in. But there are some things you cannot teach. Stout is excellent at teaching the fundamentals and the technique, but teaching a tackle how to have better balance is like trying to teach a wide receiver to be faster. You can't teach speed. My argument is about getting a player who checks all the boxes that you then can coach up to secure a premium position for the foreseeable future. And that’s not to say these prospects won’t struggle as rookies. They very well may, and I’d expect them to. Historically, tackles take a few years to acclimate to the speed and strength of NFL pass rushers. Lane Johnson is the exception; not the rule. It’s important that these young players are put in a position to learn and succeed so that they can develop into the difference makers they project to be.
But why is it so important to be aggressive and go after a tackle you evaluate to be a difference maker in the first round? Two words: elite traits. More often than not, the best tackles in the league check all of these boxes: height, weight, arm length, hand strength, agility, reaction time, balance, and anchor. It is incredibly difficult to find these traits outside of the top-15 of most drafts, let alone the first round entirely. And just as a reminder, both Lane and Mailata had every single trait that the most elite tackles in the game posses. Sure there are outliers that are missing one or a couple of these traits; that's just the standard deviation of statistical probability. And though not all starting tackles in the league are first rounders, the best line's in the league tend to have two of them. Look at some of the best lines like Cleveland, Detroit, and Atlanta. All of their lines are bookended by first round tackles. Dallas long had two first round graded tackles in Tyron Smith and La’el Collins (Collins went undrafted in 2015 due to a murder investigation that he was eventually cleared of, but was considered a top-10 talent pre-draft).
So, this brings us to 2024 and to a very special draft class. This class boasts 3 surefire top-5 picks at quarterback, another QB who will likely be a top-10 pick, and two more that could potentially find their way into the first round. Why is this relevant to the argument for a tackle in the first round? Well if your team isn't in need of a quarterback, then this many highly-rated quarterback prospects pushes other positions further down the draft board. There are 7 quarterback-needy teams that are all picking within the top-15 picks this year: Bears (1), Commanders (2), Patriots (3), Giants (6), Vikings (11), Broncos (12), and Raiders (13). That's more teams than there are top-tier QB prospects, but that suggests that it could be competitive to land one of the premier signal callers.
So what does the tackle class look like? Well, it could very well be the most talented tackle class we've seen in over a decade; the top tier of which I would argue has 6 tackles:
• Joe Alt - Notre Dame
• Olumuyiwa Fashanu - Penn State
• Taliese Fuaga - Oregon State
• JC Latham - Alabama
• Troy Fautanu - Washington
• Amarius Mims - Georgia
In most draft classes, any of these 6 players could be the first tackle off the board, and many of them offer positional versatility with the ability to shift inside for a season if need be, or to swing from right to left side.
This tier of tackles is why it feels to me like this has to be the year to find the right tackle of the future. Not only because Lane will be 34-years old at the start of the 2024 season, but because the 2025 draft class looks nowhere near as talented as this year's. And assuming we are better than 50% of teams in the league this year, we won't be picking within the top-15 picks of next year's draft, potentially sticking us with another Andre Dillard-level prospect of lesser talent who would receive 1 less year of tutelage behind Lane, assuming this won't be his last year.
And to make you feel really sick to your stomach; who knows how many more years Stout has left in him! Did you see the man at Kelce's retirement presser? He was beside himself. And he's only 3 years younger than Andy Reid. Stout could call it a career out of the blue right now and walk off with his greatest achievements being SB52 and Jason Kelce. Then what?
So in summary, I feel we as a fanbase have been spoiled by elite tackle play for the better part of 3 decades. We’ve gone from Thomas/Runyan, to Peters/Johnson, to now Mailata/Johnson, and Lane is undoubtedly in the twilight of his career. He’s not quite lost a step or become injury prone yet, but it’s not unusual for Lane to miss a game or two each season. As he gets up there in age, each injury becomes more difficult to come back from, even for a freak like him. And it’s just a matter of time until Father Time claims another victory.
EDIT: Typos and Formatting. It's a long-ass post. Of course I made mistakes. Why the hell did you even read this far ya jabroni?!

32 Teams/32 Days Hub
(Uplifting, vibrant NFL Films music begins playing)
On November 26, 2023, the Philadelphia Eagles were soaring. They had just walked off the Buffalo Bills, the AFC’s eventual #2 seed, in a thrilling overtime performance thanks to Jalen Hurts’s 12 yard TD rush. Their record following the win was 10-1, 2 wins clear of every other team in the NFC. Their point differential, while not nearly as dominant as their record indicated, was 7th in the NFL and 3rd in the NFC. Even in the midst of what was their most brutal stretch of games on their schedule, they had shown themselves to be a scrappy team that had a chance to win against any team in any kind game. They seemed poised to repeat as NFC East champions, the first team to do so in 19 years, and were in the driver’s seat for the NFC’s top seed.
(Record scratch, cut to 7 weeks later)
On January 15, 2024, the Philadelphia Eagles were knocked out of the NFL playoffs after a brutal showing against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It was their 6th loss in their last 7 games, and the 4th of those losses by 3 scores or more. They didn’t end up as the NFC’s 1 seed, nor did they end up with the NFC East title, despite the only things standing between them and that latter crown being matchups against the lowly Cardinals and Giants. They became the only team in NFL history to start 10-1 and not reach 12 wins on the season. Their point differential plummeted to 15th in the NFL and 8th in the NFC.
If the cause behind the collapse were due to a sudden rash of injuries to key players, then it would have been easier to explain. If it had been as simple as a few bad bounces of the ball, that would have still sucked, but also would have made the collapse explainable. But that’s not what happened - the collapse was a total team failure. The offense, which had largely coasted on talent throughout the year, suddenly found itself unable to overcome a scheme that had both become predictable and stale. The defense, which had already struggled to find consistency thanks to massive personnel turnover and injuries, completely fell out of sync under the playcalling of Matt Patricia.
Offseason Recap
KEY ACQUISITIONS:
(Note: the Eagles made so many notable in-season acquisitions that I will separate out the off-season ones from the in-season ones.)
Offseason:

• RB D’Andre Swift (Trade, DET) - If the Eagles made one acquisition this offseason that proved to be a home run, it was Swift, who returned to his hometown and revitalized his career, even with an offense struggling around him. His 1049 rushing yards were a career high and 5th in the NFL.
• QB Marcus Mariota - This was the biggest-money free agent acquisition the Eagles made this offseason. And fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it?) it was largely unnecessary, as outside of a couple spot injuries and the second half of Week 18, Hurts was active and healthy enough to keep Mariota on the bench.
• LB Zach Cunningham - Signed for the vet minimum a couple weeks into training camp, Cunningham proved to be the Eagles’ most important LB in 2023. Which is both a reflection of Cunningham’s slightly-better-than-expected play, and also a reflection of the Eagles’ remaining LB corps.
• LB Nicholas Morrow - For a player signed to a minimum deal with zero guaranteed money, Morrow was probably as good as could have been expected - despite his lack of size he was generally solid as a downhill tackler, even notching a 3-sack performance against the Commanders in Week 4. But for someone who ended up taking the most snaps of any Eagles LB, he was simply out of his depth.
• WR Olamide Zaccheaus - On a per-target basis, Zaccheus was the Eagles’ best receiver outside of A.J. Brown, DeVonta, and Goedert, and made a couple timely TD catches. But he was only targeted 20 times on the year, so there’s not much else to say about him.
• S Justin Evans - The former 2nd rounder began the regular season starting alongside Reed Blankenship at safety, playing almost 100% of the Eagles’ defensive snaps in 3 of their first 5 games. But the injury bug that has so ravaged Evans’ career came back to bite him again, as a knee injury ultimately ended his season after that Week 5 appearance.
• S Terrell Edmunds - Edmunds’ was the Eagles’ biggest-money free agent signing outside of Mariota, and for just 1 yea$2M he seemed like a nice buy-low candidate - a former 1st rounder with 75 career starts and the ability to play in the box. But Edmunds didn’t crack the safety rotation out of camp, and when injuries forced him into the lineup, he didn’t look good when he did play. The Eagles quickly recouped their losses by trading him and a couple late picks for Kevin Byard.
• DT Kentavius Street - Another depth free agent signed for a low guarantee, Street took a few snaps per game as a pass-rushing DT, then was traded to Atlanta prior to Week 9 for a late round pick swap.
• RB Rashaad Penny - It seemed like Penny’s size, speed, and hyper-efficiency (over 6 yards/carry over the preceding 2 seasons) combined with the Eagles’ dominant OL would be a perfect match. But when D’Andre Swift entered the picture, Penny ended up relegated to healthy scratch status as the Eagles couldn’t really find a gameday role for him.
• TE Albert Okwuegbunam - Acquired on final camp cutdown day for a swap of late-round picks, Albert O ended up being the Eagles’ ceremonial athletic TE stash, being targeted just once in the 4 games he was active.
• CB Isaiah Rodgers - This was more of a speculative pickup for 2024 as Rodgers sat out the season due to a gambling suspension.
• LB Myles Jack - Brought in alongside Zach Cunningham to provide adequate veteran depth - and in Jack’s case, size - to a shallow LB corps.
• CB Greedy Williams, TE Dan Arnold, OT Dennis Kelly - A smattering of veterans who had a chance to be roster depth but merely ended up being camp bodies.

In-season: * S Kevin Byard (Trade, TEN) - Byard was the highest profile pickup the Eagles made all year, as the Titans dumped his salary in exchange for Terrell Edmunds and 2 late round picks. He wasn’t bad by any means, but perhaps a disappointment to those expecting the 2021 All-Pro version of him. * CB Bradley Roby - The veteran was signed in early October, but didn’t find a steady role until after the bye because of injuries, and ended up as the Eagles’ primary slot CB until Avonte Maddox returned from injury, with mixed results. * WR Julio Jones - It’s pretty neat when one of the best NFL WRs of this generation picks your favorite team for a ring chasing opportunity. But unfortunately, there was little else that Julio could bring besides HoF credentials - the 34-year-old ended up catching just 11 balls in 11 games. * P Braden Mann - Not only did Mann end up being the Eagles’ most successful in-season acquisition of 2023, but he was actually solidly above-average, the quality of which they haven’t had in a punter since Donnie Jones departed after 2017. * LB Shaq Leonard - One of the Eagles’ few late-season voctories was when Leonard chose to join the Eagles over the Cowboys ahead of both teams’ late-season stretch runs. It was of particular importance to the Eagles, as they were well into the dregs of their LB corps. And while Leonard was certainly an improvement, he could only do so much to halt the Eagles’ collapse.
KEY DEPARTURES:

• DT Javon Hargrave (FA, SF) - As a DT who could effectively rush the passer from the A gap, Hargrave blossomed into a unique defensive weapon during his 3 years in Philly. As much as the Eagles value pass rushing DL, they were never going to be able to give Hargrave the megadeal he deserved.
• OT Andre Dillard (FA, TEN) - The main question surrounding Dillard during his time as an Eagle: Was he merely a bust, or just unfortunate to be stuck behind 2 great LT? The Titans banked on the latter, pricing Dillard well outside the range the Eagles would value a backup OL.
• OG Isaac Seumalo (FA, PIT) - Seumalo had been an underrated piece of the Eagles’ OL for the last few years. Letting him walk in free agency was more about the Eagles’ faith in their own internal options (specifically Cam Jurgens) rather than Seumalo’s worth as a player.
• S C.J. Gardner-Johnson (FA, DET) - CJGJ made a major impact in his one year as an Eagle as a versatile, playmaking safety who could cover from the slot when needed. It’s very possible that CJGJ was the Eagles’ first choice to be re-signed, but by the time it was clear that he wouldn’t get the megadeal he wanted from a cold S market, the Eagles had no room for him, and he took a bridge deal from Detroit instead.
• LB T.J. Edwards (FA, CHI) - Edwards blossomed from UDFA special teamer to solid 3-down LB during his time in Philly. But the Eagles seldom give major deals to LBs, and Edwards took the chance to return to his hometown Bears.
• RB Miles Sanders (FA, CAR) - Like Andre Dillard, Sanders’s value was something of a mystery entering the 2023 offseason: was his remarkable efficiency (5.0 yards/carry in Philly) a product of his talent, or the talent surrounding him? The Eagles went with the latter, and Sanders ended up getting a solid payday from the Panthers.
• S Marcus Epps (FA, LV) - Another player who made his way up the depth chart over the years, Epps was similarly priced out of the range the Eagles wanted to pay for a middling starting safety.
• LB Kyzir White (FA, ARI) - White was a solid cover LB for the 2022 Eagles defense, but like Edwards, the Eagles were not willing to hand over a multi-year deal, so White joined Jonathan Gannon out in the desert.
• QB Gardner Minshew (FA, IND) - Minshew didn’t really stand out as the backup to Jalen Hurts, nor would he ever get a chance to be an NFL starter as long as he was Hurts’s backup. The Eagles signed Marcus Mariota, who was a better fit (at least from a mobility standpoint), and Minshew landed in Indy with Shane Steichen.
• WR Zach Pascal (FA, ARI) - Pascal proved to be great value in 2022 as a versatile depth WR and special teamer. But with the Eagles leery of handing multi-year deals to reserves, Pascal ultimately signed a 2 year contract with the Cards.
• LB Myles Jack (Retired) - Decided he’d rather go to trade school - or, ultimately, play under Mike Tomlin again - than take orders from Sean Desai. Fair enough!
• OL Bernard Williams (Released) - It makes sense that the Eagles let go of this former 1st round bust, who struggled with marijuana and effort issues during his time in the NFL. It makes even more sense given that Williams is 51 years old and hasn't played in the NFL since 1994.

DRAFT PICKS/KEY UDFA:

• 1-9: Jalen Carter, DT, Georgia - Carter lived up to the hype and then some. The traits that made him arguably the most feared player on Georgia’s dominant championship defenses - his agility, strength and violent hands - translated nicely to the NFL. The only thing that seemed to slow him down was the rookie wall, and Matt Patricia.
• 1–30: Nolan Smith, EDGE, Georgia - Smith was considered the best value pick of the 2023 1st round, but was mostly confined to backing up Haason Reddick as a rookie, and when he did play, he tended to be overmatched physically. He did show more flashes at the tail end of the year, and more bulk, a better scheme, and a possible Reddick trade might do him more favors going forward.
• 3-65: Tyler Steen, OL, Alabama - It’s not an Eagles draft without a high pick on an OL, and Steen was that guy this year. Experienced and with plenty of athleticism, Steen fit the bill of an Eagles OL prospect. He was expected to have a role as a utility OL with an outside chance to start at RG, but only saw extended action in 1 game.
• 3-66: Sydney Brown, S, Illinois - The only real warts in Brown’s profile were his height and length - which to be fair, are not insignificant issues - but Brown showed off incredible speed and agility. His instincts were still a bit raw, but he could be a unique weapon going into 2024.
• 4-105: Kelee Ringo, CB, Georgia - It was a mystery why Ringo didn’t factor into the Eagles’ CB rotation until well into the season, but once he got a starting spot, he flashed the kind of rare potential that someone of his size/speed provides. With James Bradberry’s sharp decline and Darius Slay’s age, Ringo could be a starter next year.
• 6-188: Tanner McKee, QB, Stanford - McKee was a slightly surprising pick; unlike Hurt: and Mariota, he isn’t mobile, plus had relatively little collegiate experience, starting 2 years for terrible Stanford teams. But he had a strong preseason, showing a good arm and poise once he had a reasonable supporting cast. Fortunately, the Eagles didn’t need him this year, but he could be the QB2 next year.
• 7-249: Moro Ojomo, DT, Texas - Ojomo’s profile showed a unique combination of experience, age (was 21 when drafted), length, and run stopping ability. But there were simply too many people ahead of him for him to earn even a rotational role as a rookie.
• UDFA: Eli Ricks, CB, Alabama - Ricks was the best UDFA in Eagles camp and played both outside and slot CB during the season, albeit not very well.
• UDFA: Ben VanSumeren, LB, Michigan State - A hyper-athletic MB with limited experience, VanSumeren was added to the active roster for the second half of the season and flashed as a special teamer; he even got some looks on defense when the Eagles were LB-starved.

Weekly Recap

Week	Score	Summary
1	PHI 25, @NE 22	The Eagles went up 16-0 early and were up 11 with 5:33 left in the game, but the Patriots nearly came back both times in what proved to be an underwhelming start (and perhaps a sign of things to come?) for the defending NFC champions. The Eagles escaped when Kayshon Boutte stepped out of bounds on a red zone 4th down pass with 25 seconds left.
2	@PHI 34, MIN 28	The Eagles took a 27-7 lead early in the 3rd quarter, but unlike in 2022, where the Vikings folded in a Week 2 primetime game in Philly, they got back to within 6 in the 4th quarter. The Eagles couldn’t slow the Vikings down, but time would be on their side when an onside kick recovery with 1:10 left ended the game.
3	PHI 25, @TB 11	Neither offense did much until a desperation Hurts heave to Olamide Zaccheaus late in the first half resulted in the 1st TD of the game and allowed the Eagles to pace the remainder of the way, highlighted by Nicholas Morrow stuffing Rachaad White for a safety.
4	@PHI 34, WAS 31	A back-and-forth affair saw the Eagles take a 31-24 lead with 1:41 to go thanks to an A.J. Brown TD, but Washington rallied with a buzzer-beating TD of their own to send the game to OT. After a Washington 3-and-out, Jake Elliott would end the game with a 54-yard FG.
5	PHI 23, @LAR 14	A leaky Eagles secondary allowed 2 1st half pass TDs to Matt Stafford and a 14-10 Rams 1st half lead, but the Eagles took the lead with a Hurts tush push to end the half, and the Eagles defense held the Rams scoreless in the second half.
6	@NYJ 20, PHI 14	Bad luck befell the Eagles here - a -4 turnover differential, Lane Johnson being injured in the first half, an uncharacteristic Jake Elliott miss - but they had a chance to seal the game late. Tony Adams picked off Jalen Hurts at the 2-minute warning, the Jets took the lead on the next play, and the Eagles punctuated their first-ever loss to the Jets with a low-percentage incomplete pass on 4th down.
7	@PHI 31, MIA 17	In what was the Eagles’ most complete performance of the season, they held a white-hot Miami offense to 10 points while scoring 31 points of their own, including back-to-back TD drives in the 2nd half to ice the game.
8	PHI 38, @WAS 31	The Eagles had no answer to Sam Howell and the Washington offense for the first 48 minutes of the game, but the Eagles turned on the jets late, scoring 3 straight TDs in the 4th quarter to take a 38-24 lead, and eventually sealed the final margin on another onside recovery with 1:01 to go.
9	@PHI 28, DAL 23	The Eagles took a 28-17 lead in the 3rd quarter, but struggled to dispatch Dallas thereafter: a Dallas TD was overturned after the receiver’s knee hit the ground with the ball short of the goal line, then CeeDee Lamb fumbled a last-second pass just short of the goal line, allowing the Eagles to escape yet agin.
10	BYE
11	PHI 21, @KC 17	A rematch of a thrilling SB57 was anything but - the Chiefs took a 17-7 lead into the half, but the Eagles clawed their way to the lead in the 4th quarter thanks to 2 Jalen Hurts TDs. Marquez Valdes-Scantling dropped a deep go-ahead TD pass late, and the Eagles would end the game 2 plays later.
12	@PHI 37, BUF 34	In their most thrilling performance of 2023, the Eagles overcame a white hot Josh Allen performance, 2 4th quarter deficits, and an overtime Bills FG to improve to 10-1 on a walk-off Jalen Hurts TD run.
13	SF 42, @PHI 19	In what would end up as the most important game of the 49ers’ season, the Eagles let any early hopes built up by 2 red zone drives to begin the game completely dissolve when they subsequently allowed 6 straight 49ers TD drives in what was their least competitive regular season performance since Week 7 in 2021.
14	@DAL 33, PHI 13	The Eagles didn’t seem any less punchless in this contest then they were the previous week, as the Cowboys took a 24-6 halftime lead and saw out the game from there, with the Eagles’ best offensive play being a Jalen Carter fumble return TD.
15	@SEA 20, PHI 17	In the first-ever game to be flexed to Monday night - and the first with Matt Patricia calling defensive plays - the Eagles struggled to put up points against a mediocre Seattle defense or shut down a Drew Lock-led offense, and they paid for it when the Seahawks executed a perfect game-winning 2 minute drill to score on a 28-yard TD with 28 seconds to go.
16	@PHI 33, NYG 25	In a Christmans day bout, the Eagles took a 20-3 lead at the half, but thanks to a couple glaring mistakes, allowed the Giants back to within 2 by the end of the 3rd quarter, then had to withstand a potential Giants rally until a Tyrod Taylor Haio Mary ended up in Kelee Ringo’s arms to end the game.
17	ARI 35, @PHI 31	The 3-12 Cardinals converted 17 of 20 series and held the ball for nearly 40 minutes. The Eagles did take a 31-28 lead with 2:33 to go, but the Cards offense scythed through a hapless Eagles defense, and James Conner’s go-ahead TD with 32 seconds left took the NFC East crown away from the Eagles for good.
18	@NYG 27, PHI 10	The Eagles still had a chance to win the NFC East entering the game, but the Giants looked like the team with something to play for, scoring the first 24 points of the game. The Eagles waved the white flag after that, benching their starters before the 1st half ended, and didn’t generate much after that.
WC	@TB 32, PHI 9	In a near-total reversal of the teams’ Week 3 matchup, the Buccaneers pounced all over a discombobulated Eagles team. The Eagles offered little on both sides of the ball, and when they did have a chance to drive for a game-tying TD late in the 3rd, a Jalen Hurts intentional grounding resulted in a safety; 2 long Bucs TDs put the game - and the Eagles’ season - to bed.

Roster Overview
QB (B): The bad news is that Jalen Hurts led the league in turnovers, as his 2.8% INT rate was nearly twice that of 2022. The good news is that this seemed to be the only blip on his season. Excluding garbage time, Hurts was 4th in EPA/play (minimum 320 dropbacks) and 2nd in CPOE. And even the turnovers may have been a bit of a blip - his 2.3% turnover worthy play rate was the 6th lowest of 29 QBs with at least 300 dropbacks (per PFF). While a midseason knee injury affected his rushing efficiency somewhat, Hurts was still a Tush Push weapon. Only Josh Allen and Raheem Mostert recorded as many rushing TDs as Hurts did. Marcus Mariota barely saw action during the season as a result, which was probably for the best.
RB (B): It seemed likely that whoever won the RB1 battle in camp would reap the rewards of a great OL, and that winner was D’Andre Swift, who indeed cashed in on the opportunity to put up a career year. In that respect, Kenny Gainwell was a bit of a disappointment as a complementary weapon, but did seem to look more explosive as the season went on. Boston Scott and Rashaad Penny saw little action on offense.
WR (B): The duo of A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith didn’t disappoint - Brown made his 2nd straight 2nd Team All-Pro, and Smith continued to show elite explosiveness and route-running. The main issue came after that - Quez Watkins continued his free fall, Olamide Zaccheaus made some clutch catches but was rarely featured, and Julio Jones look every bit his age.
TE (B-): Like in 2022, Dallas Goedert was an excellent receiver over the middle when he was healthy, but his totals were affected by an arm injury and an offense that seemed to shy away from that area of the field. Like in 2022, Jack Stoll was mainly a blocker on the move and didn’t feature as a receiver even when Goedert missed time. Like in 2022, Grant Calcaterra saw just a few snaps a game. Like in 2022, the Eagles rostered a raw, athletic 4th TE that barely saw game action (Albert Okwuegbunam).
OT (A-): Lane Johnson’s 2023 wasn’t as strong as his 2022, but he was still a 2nd team All-Pro. Jordan Mailata had the best season of his career, looking solid as a two-way blocker, and deserving of more All-Pro mention - even if he’s better known nationally for his singing appearances and Tide endorsement. Jack Driscoll filled in for Lane a couple times due to injury, but didn’t look great. Fred Johnson only saw action during Week 18 garbage time.
iOL (B): Center wasn’t an issue - when you have a generational player like Jason Kelce getting his 6th 1st team All-Pro nod in 7 years, there’s little to worry about. LG wasn’t an issue either - Landon Dickerson found a bit more consistency in his 3rd season, being named to his second straight Pro Bowl. RG was where the Eagles struggled a bit - Cam Jurgens flashed in his first season as starter but missed 6 games due to injury, Sua Opeta got the most playing time of his 5-year career but was mediocre at best, and rookie Tyler Steen barely saw game action, and looked very waw when he did.
iDL (B): There’s no questioning the depth of this corps - franchise legend Fletcher Cox bounced back from an up-and-down 2022 to put together a solid season, Jalen Carter was the DROY favorite for most of the year, Jordan Davis began to show the immense potential as an NT that goes alongside his incredible athletic tools, and Milton Williams began to cash in on his own athletic tools, making a big jump in his 3rd NFL season. Marlon Tulipulotu, Kentavius Street, and rookie Moro Ojomo also made some plays at the fringe of the rotation. But like the rest of the Eagles’ D, they were all let down by miserable coaching and scheme at the end of the year.
EDGE (D+): What had been arguably the Eagles’ strongest position group in 2022 was arguably their most disappointing in 2023. Haason Reddick hit double digit sacks for the 4th straight season, but had a slow start and then didn’t record a sack after Week 14. Josh Sweat’s sack total dipped from 11.0 to 6.5, and only had 1 sack between Weeks 8-18 despite remaining healthy. Brandon Graham’s 3.0 sacks was his lowest full-season total since 2013, when he was playing out of position as a 3-4 OLB. 1st rounder Nolan Smith didn’t play much, and seemed physically overmatched when he did play. Derek Barnett ended up a healthy scratch, then found his form again once the Eagles waived him. Patrick Johnson barely played as a deep reserve.
LB (C-): A lot of the Eagles’ hopes here were dependent on Nakobe Dean stepping into the LB1 role, but he only played 5 games due to injury, and the football IQ he displayed at Georgia didn’t really show up on tape. And thus, the Eagles were left with a hodgepodge of washed veterans to fill in the void. That said, even if they didn’t have any business being starting NFL LBs in 2023 (Zach Cunningham, Nicholas Morrow) they actually provided decent value for vet minimum players, even if they didn’t have any business being starting NFL LBs in 2023. They added Shaq Leonard late in the season, and while he was decent, it was still too little, too late. At its worst, the Eagles trotted out special teamers Christian Elliss and Ben VanSumeren with predictably bad results.
CB (D): Obviously, starting 2 CBs over 30 can be a bit of a risk. Fortunately, Darius Slay bounced back somewhat from a mediocre 2nd half of 2022. Unfortunately, James Bradberry’s play took a complete nosedive, going from 2022 All-Pro to giving up more yards than all but 7 NFL DBs. Beyond that, injury problems in the first half of the season saw the Eagles cycle through a number of players hoping to find consistency. Avonte Maddox got hurt early, and was replaced in the slot by Bradley Roby, who also got hurt. They trotted out a number of young CBs in Josh Jobe, Mario Goodrich, Kelee Ringo, and Eli Ricks; only Ringo bore fruit early. And when they finally found a consistent rotation late in the year, Matt Patricia happened.
S (C): In his first full season as starter, Reed Blankenship led the Eagles in tackles and interceptions, and looked like the Eagles’ best ballhawk for stretches - pretty good for a former UDFA in his first full NFL season as starter. Justin Evans and Terrell Edmunds didn’t offer much, so while trade target Kevin Byard wasn’t as good as his All-Pro days of years past, he was certainly an improvement. Sydney Brown looked aggressive when he did play, but his lack of length showed big time. Mekhi Garner and Tristin McCollum got spot appearances.
ST (A): The Eagles’ biggest standouts in 2023 came from this unit. Outside of Brandon Aubrey, arguably no kicker was better in 2023 than Jake Elliott. Britain Covey let the NFL in punt return yards. Even Braden Mann had himself a solid year, giving the Eagles a dimension they hadn’t had in years. And despite losing some of their key players early in camp, they got standout performances from numerous young players like Josh Jobe, Ben VanSumeren, Nolan Smith, and Sydney Brown. , Coaching/FO Overview
GM Howie Roseman: The collapse of the Eagles in the post-SB52 years was in no small part due to numerous cap-clogging deals and missed draft picks over the years. Certainly, there were other factors that accelerated that collapse, but Howie certainly deserved part of the blame there. But this year? It’s hard to fault him for much of what went wrong.
Is it a mistake to chase someone from the Vic Fangio tree as a DC while spending peanuts on the LB position? Perhaps, to a degree. Was Howie the one who suggested replacing Sean Desai with Matt Patricia as defensive playcaller? Yeah, Nick Sirianni admitted that in his postseason presser, but we’ll probably never know for sure. But apart from that, there isn’t necessarily a single move or series of moves that Howie made that were the result of a bad process. Entering the 2023 offseason, the Eagles were cap strapped and brain-drained. They re-signed arguably their best-performing defensive free agent from their 2022 Super Bowl run, tried to fill in the gaps with cheap FAs, chased numerous vets afterwards, and even with that, it took a collapse outside of Howie’s control to knock the Eagles from championship contender status.
And unlike in 2020, the Eagles have a franchise QB, offensive nucleus, and the most young defensive talent they’ve had in a long time. There’s not a ton to worry about when it comes to Howie Roseman right now.
HC Nick Sirianni: How does a head coach with 2 and a half wildly successful seasons under his belt burn through all his goodwill in 7 weeks? Well, being at the helm of the Eagles’ biggest in-season collapse in over a decade is one reason. Refusing to make any significant changes to an offensive scheme that was struggling even with an immense amount of offensive talent is another - even though Sirianni pointed out that it was the same scheme that had been implemented in 2021, there’s no such thing as staying still in the NFL. Seeing the Eagles’ on-field demeanor shift over the last few weeks - with multiple instances of heated arguments between players and coaches on the sideline - is another. So is whiffing on both coordinator hires, and having your biggest in-season coaching adjustment backfire spectacularly - yeah, Howie also has some blame here, but when you position yourself as more of a CEO and less of a schemer, you can’t afford to screw up.
That said, it’s notable that even with all this, multiple veteran leaders spoke highly about Sirianni’s leadership. Amid rumors that Sirianni was coaching for his job, the Eagles were still happy to back him for 2024, albeit with more established coordinators from outside the org. But he is very much on the hot seat right now. Any misstep by the Eagles in 2024 will be blamed - rightly or wrongly - on Sirianni. And the expectation is still Super Bowl contention, so there isn’t room for error.
OC Brian Johnson: It’s easy to look back in hindsight and wonder why the Eagles opted to hire a first-year NFL OC over someone with more experience when they were in the middle of a championship window. It’s even easier to do so when the new hire ended up flopping majorly. But the Johnson hire was perfectly sensible at the time - he’d been an OC in college for multiple different programs, and in his first 2 seasons as an NFL coach had turned Jalen Hurts from a borderline NFL player to an MVP candidate in just 2 seasons. And even with Shane Steichen off to Indianapolis, it made sense to think that Sirianni and Johnson could continue to run the same offensive scheme that they’d dominated so heavily with in 2022, especially with the same personnel.
But that didn’t happen. The Eagles’ offense took a gigantic step back in 2023. They were 32nd in motion rate. Rather than accentuating the numerous talents on the Eagles’ offense, the scheme seemed to be almost dependent on them. What’s more, the Eagles offense struggled with situational awareness, often forcing low percentage passes in situations where they weren’t necessary. In a way, the Eagles having such an automatic play in the Tush Push warped their offensive approach.
Is Johnson the scapegoat for the Eagles’ offensive struggles? It’s possible. Johnson is still very young, having just turned 37 in February, and did receive NFL head coaching interviews in the early offseason. And at the end of the day, Nick Sirianni claimed that this scheme was his, and much of the in-game decision-making is Sirianni’s job.
DC Sean Desai: I’ll lead off my opinion on Desai by making clear that I don’t think he was The Guy. At the end of the day, the Eagles’ defense had glaring schematic problems that never got better. And post-season reports suggest that Desai struggled to connect with the Eagles’ defensive leaders and was unwilling to adjust his scheme.
But I do think there’s a reasonable argument that no Eagles coach got shafted this season more than Desai. He was the Eagles’ 3rd choice to be the DC in 2023 after Jonathan Gannon bolted for Arizona and Vic Fangio went to Miami. The back 7 he inherited had dealt with major personnel turnover, and had landed significant downgrades almost everywhere as a result. And as the Eagles were forced to acquire veterans to deal with injuries and depth concerns, Desai was never able to find a stable core of trusted talent. And even with all that, the Eagles did actually put together some solid defensive performances - namely, holding an elite Dolphins offense to 10 points, holding the Chiefs and Rams scoreless in the second halves of those respective games.
Senior Defensive Assistant Matt Patricia - I have nothing nice to say here. Under his playcalling, the defense went from nearly mediocre to completely abhorrent. There wasn’t a single phase that didn’t get markedly worse - even their awful 3rd down defense plummeted to new depths. Calling Patricia’s scheme amateurish is doing a disservice to amateur football players everywhere.
Patricia’s last 3 NFL gigs were him failing as an NFL head coach, failing as an offensive playcaller, and failing as a defensive playcaller. With any luck, his next NFL gig will be failing for some other NFC East team.
STC Michael Clay: If there’s any case to be made for why it’s worth sticking with first-time coordinators who don’t nail things right away, it’s Clay. The Eagles’ special teams were a modest 15th in DVOA in 2021 (Clay’s first year), then struggled early in 2022 before righting the ship late and finishing 13th. And in preseason, they lost 2 key special teamers to season-ending injuries (Shaun Bradley and Zech McPhearson). And yet they would end up 1st in special teams DVOA in 2023. There wasn’t much that didn’t improve.
2023 Offseason Needs, as of 3/12/24
DEFCON 1:
LB - The Eagles have just Nakobe Dean and Ben VanSumeren under non-futures contracts for 2024, and with a new DC in Vic Fangio and a scheme that emphasizes LB play, they’re gonna need all the help they can get.
DEFCON 2:
CB - James Bradberry fell off a cliff last year, and Darius Slay may be next. They have some young talent waiting in the wings, but if they’re not ready, then the Eagles will need to be aggressive in finding alternatives.
OL - The Eagles have LT, LG, and RT locked down for the foreseeable future, and with Jason Kelce’s retirement, Cam Jurgens will slide over to C. But the Eagles hate having any glaring weaknesses in their OL, and there is no clear answer at RG right now.
DEFCON 3:
TE - Dallas Goedert is great, but it’s the same story as last year - the Eagles don’t have any options behind him. They all but ignored TE last offseason; they could do the same again, but there’s room for improvement.
DEFCON 4:
EDGE - Adding Bryce Huff to a corps that already has Josh Sweat, Haason Reddick, Nolan Smith, and Brandon Graham answers depth concerns for the short term. But with Sweat and Reddick rumored to be on the block, there’s still potential for turnover.
WR - A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith are an elite tandem. But outside of those two the Eagles got little production.
RB - The Eagles’ signing of Saquon Barkley early in free agency answers the question of who’ll be the RB1 next year. But with him and Kenny Gainwell the only veterans under contract, they’ll need to fill out their depth chart.
iDL - They have a great young base of Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, and Milton Williams, plus a couple of other young rotational depth pieces. But some veteran leadership might be necessary if Fletcher Cox walks.
DEFCON 5:
QB - Jalen Hurts is a locked-in QB1, and Tanner McKee likely showed enough to be locked in at QB2. The only thing missing is veteran depth, but they shouldn’t feel the need to spend as much as they did for Marcus Mariota last year.
ST - With Braden Mann and Rick Lovato already re-signed, there’s nothing else to do here.

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Hi there! I spent about 65 hours in your fine town at the end of January. I knew within the first hour of being downtown that I'd be returning many more times. Here's a report on my whirlwind visit, which was coupled with 3 days in Charleston. My priorities when traveling include great food, live music, and getting a sense of the history of the area. I take a narrative approach to my trip reports, so settle in. This is going to be a long one.
Day 1: Tuesday, January 24, 2024 - Arrival, Treylor Park, Moon River Brewing Co., JW Marriott Plant Riverside, Better Than Sex, The Portal Barcade
Arrived around 5 pm. Spent a few minutes walking around the airport. So tiny and quaint. I am not used to single terminal airports. Waits for rideshare and taxis were significantly longer than expected based on the airport traffic. Turns out I was coming in at "rush hour" and all the employees leaving Gulf Stream at the end of the day were causing traffic snarls. I waited around 40 minutes to finally get into a Lyft. I was downtown and dropped off to check in at my hotel within 20 minutes.
I am a no-frills traveler when it comes to accommodations. If I had found a hostel to to stay at close to downtown, I would have. Instead I ended up at the Planters Inn on Reynolds Square. I have no complaints of note. I spend minimal time in my room and it served its purpose. It's an older property, but I didn't find it to be dingy or in disrepair. The location was ideal for wandering.
After dropping off my stuff, I set out for dinner. I was very hungry after the long day of travel and looking for something unassuming. I had come across Treylor Park in my research and decided on the main spot as opposed to the Double Wide Diner. Really enjoyed the PB & J wings. The pot pie, served in the form of a chimichanga, was good but not knock your socks off great. It needed some more crunch from the tortilla or something else to offset the texture of the pot pie filling. The cherry cola cocktail was also very tasty. All in all, I walked out satisfied.
As I walked up Bay St., I heard some honkytonkin' live music coming from Moon River Brewing Co, which drew me inside to a spot at the bar. I had their current small batch Wild Wacky Wit while I enjoyed the band, The Anders Thomsen Trio. Great band. Anders can shred. I bought a CD to show my support and mosied on when their set wrapped up.
The JW Marriott Plant Riverside is a stunningly beautiful property. In my research, I'd read they had some fossils and stuff on display, but nothing could have prepared me for how beautiful this place is. Truly one of the most impressively designed and decorated hotels I've ever seen. I started with a visit to their rooftop bar, Electric Moon. Cool spot with incredible views of the river and Talmadge Memorial Bridge, on this rainy night shrouded in a haze. I spent about an hour wandering the property and still felt like I needed to return later to take in more of it.
Decided to treat myself to some dessert at Better Than Sex, a restaurant that serves exclusively dessert and drinks. The servers really lay it on with cheesy, flirty service. I found it to be very amusing and enjoyed listening to the reactions of the diners seated around me. There were about 12 different sweet options on the menu. After much deliberation, I ended up with the Missionary Apple Crisp, enticed by the words "addictive salted graham cracker crumble". No regrets. Absolutely delicious. I had to stop myself from finishing the whole thing.
Next door to Better Than Sex, I found a cool little barcade called The Portal. Spent 30-45 minutes playing some pinball. It was now 11 pm and I was fading fast. I wandered back to the hotel through deserted, fog bathed streets.
Day 2: Thursday, January 25, 2024 - Spread Bagelry, Ferry ride, Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist, Forsyth Park, Sweet Patricia's Bakery, Green Truck Pub, Picker Joe's Antique Mall and Vintage Market, Starland Yard, Congregation Mickve Israel, SCADstory, Graffito Pizzeria, Glenn Miller Orchestra at Johnny Mercer Theater, Alley Cat Lounge, Lost Square, JW Marriott Plant Riverside
As you can see, I am go, go, go when I'm on "vacation". I only have so much time in the amazing places I am fortunate to visit, so I make the most of it. The morning started before 8 am (I am from the west coast, so it still felt like 5 am to me). Stopped at Spread Bagelry for a toasted egg everything bagel with goat cheese cream cheese and a drizzle of hot honey. Enjoyed it on a bench at Wright Square. Great way to start the day.
I had no set plans for the early part of the day so I wandered my way back over to the riverside, which was again covered in fog. Sure looked cool. A ferry pulled up as I was walking past and I decided that would be the perfect way to kill some time. I always try to get out on the water however I can and ferries are often a great way to do it. I took the ride across to Hutchinson Island and then back over to the Waving Girl stop. Walked my way back west along the river, stopping to enjoy the many statues and memorials.
Back in the core of downtown, I found myself walking past the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist. It was open to step inside and I was lucky to walk in on a docent providing a talk about the design and history of the cathedral. Awe inspiring in its beauty, one of the finest houses of worship I've visited. The murals and diorama displays of the death of Christ really stand out.
After a stop at Congregation Mickve Israel, it was decided I'd be back for the 2:30 pm tour. With a couple of hours to spare, I decided to make a long walk through Forsyth Park and down to Green Truck Pub for a burger. I will never get tired of seeing live oak trees with spanish moss hanging, and Forsyth Park offered many of these. It's a beautiful park. The fountain was turned off as I passed through this early, but I'd catch it turned on later.
On the way to Green Truck, I stopped at Sweet Patricia's Bakery and grabbed a sampler of their best desserts, including cheesecake, mascarpone brownie, and a cannoli. Gotta be honest, I expected more from each of these. They were OK, but nothing really wowed me. I didn't even end up finishing the cheesecake, and I love that stuff. Oh well, still happy to support a small business and the woman working there was very kind.
The burgers at Green Truck Pub are touted as some of the best in the city. I very much enjoyed the Trailer Park. Pimento cheese is not something I eat regularly, but I know it's a big deal down there so I ate it on a few different occasions and in different formats. Good stuff. The fries were also very good. I wanted a good burger and I got one.
Still with a bit of time before needing to get back to Mickve, I wandered around the Starland area a bit, stopping in at Picker Joe's Antique Mall and Vintage Market and scoping out Starland Yard (not a lot going on this early in the day) before returning to Mickve with a return walk through Forsyth.
The tour of the third oldest Jewish congregation in America was illuminating. It's the only neo-Gothic synagogue in the US and it was cool to contrast the design to St. John the Baptist after coming from there earlier in the day. Seeing a 700 year old Torah, the oldest in the country, was very special.
Ended up walking past SCAD on Bull St. and was just in time for their 4D presentation, SCADstory. This was an incredibly well done piece of advertising and propaganda for the school. It really made the place out to be some sort of art school utopia. As an educator, I was touched. However, I've heard the reality doesn't quite match what's shown. Still a very entertaining way to spend 20-30 minutes.
Back to the riverside, this time to enjoy dinner on the patio at Graffito Pizzeria. Everything here was great. There was a two piece bluegrass couple playing on the stage nearby. The service was impeccable. All of the food I enjoyed was delicious, with the RCK pizza (bacon, sausage, mozzarella, caramelized onions, and a white sauce) and their chocolate budino being the standouts. Would definitely return. Took in a bit more of the bluegrass stageside before departing, but not too late to hear a killer cover of Beck's Golden Age.
From one musical act to another, I made my way to the Johnny Mercer Theater for the Glenn Miller Orchestra. I scored by buying the cheapest ticket in the house and moving up to an empty seat (whole row really) in about the 6th or 7th row. Phenomenal performance. They played several songs in homage to Johnny Mercer, including a beautiful rendition of Moon River. Another highlight was Georgia On My Mind. Of course. They played about 2 hours with a 20 minute intermission and included every famous Glenn Miller piece you'd want to hear. Highly recommend to see them if you have the chance.
I decided to close the night out with some cocktails at a few of the bars I'd read about, including the Alley Cat Lounge (super low key, incredible cocktail menu [newspaper really], great service, killer playlist) and Lost Square (another rooftop bar, cool vibe, not quite as good a view as Electric Moon).
Wrapped up this long day with another late night stop in at the JW Marriott, this time to spend some more time focusing on the fossils and gemstones on display. I love this place. I won't ever pay what it takes to stay there, but the common areas are enough for me. After about 16 hours on the go, I returned to the hotel for a well-earned night of rest. Tomorrow would be my last day in a city I'd quickly grown to love.
Day 3: Friday, January 26, 2024 - B. Matthew's Eatery, Old Fort Jackson, Graveface Museum, Bonaventure Cemetery tour with Bonaventure Don, Leopold's Ice Cream, Crystal Beer Parlor, Jazz'd Tapas Bar, Totally Awesome Bar, Vinny Van GoGo's, Savannah Candy Kitchen, Abe's on Lincoln
Slept in this morning and didn't get out the door until close to 9:30. Enjoyed a delicious fried chicken biscuit with pimento cheese at B. Matthew's Eatery on Bay St. Nice little breakfast spot with a view to the river through the front window. I'd definitely eat here again.
Spent a few minutes looking at more memorials and historical markers in Emmet Park while I waited for an Uber to get me out to Old Fort Jackson. On Google Maps, the fort didn't look toooo far from downtown, but after viewing the route from the car, I was glad to have not made that walk.
When I arrived at the fort on what was a beautiful, slightly overcast morning, I was the only patron on site. I had just missed the musket firing demonstration, which had been canceled because there was no one there to see it. I would be in time for the cannon firing, and had some time to wander around before that was to commence. Honestly, I enjoyed this one more than Fort Sumter from a purely physical standpoint. It's in better, more original condition than Sumter, though it doesn't have quite the same historical significance. I am happy I got to see both. Next trip will be Fort Pulaski and Fort Moultrie.
I wasn't expecting the cannon firing demo to include a really interesting overview of the civil war and the fort's role in it. The volunteer guide was dressed in a historical uniform and really knew his stuff. His talk provided a lot of context for what I'd already seen and what I'd come to see in Charleston. The cannon firing was impressively loud and over in a literal flash. After a bit longer exploring the site and taking pictures, I was back in an Uber for a ride to the Graveface Museum.
Unfortunately, I'd only have about an hour here before needing to depart for a timed tour at Bonaventure. I could have spent a lot more time than I did, though I was already a bit "read out" from other museums and exhibits at that point. The collection here is really off the wall, spanning from weird taxidermy and freakshow displays to a room dedicated to Satanism, along with the largest collection of John Wayne Gacy's paintings, a free-play pinball room, recreation of Ed Gein's house of horrors, and a bunch more. The cool thing is that your admission allows you to return any time within the following 24 hours. So, if I had wanted and had the time, I could have come back. Instead, I will save that for my next time in town. If you're into weird shit, definitely get to Graveface.
I did some research, including here on this subreddit, about the best walking tours of Bonaventure. I ended up booking with Bonaventure Don, who is a member of the Bonaventure Historical Society, has family buried there, and even has his own key to the place. I figured I'd get an expert in the history and significance of the grounds, and I was not disappointed. I am very thankful he did not cancel though I was the only one booked for that day. Instead, I got an incredible private tour and he was able to show me things he couldn't have with a larger group. This place is beautiful, one of the finest cemeteries I've visited. I will look forward to returning and walking the grounds on my own each time I come back to Savannah. I cannot recommend Don enough. He was such a nice guy that he even offered a ride back to my hotel downtown instead of having me call another Uber. If you want a legit history tour, not a BS ghost tour, definitely look him up.
After a brief stop at the hotel and a visit to a lineless Leopold's for a scoop, I walked down to Crystal Beer Parlor. Loved this place. Had a really great conversation with a local couple next to me and enjoyed their GIGANTIC duck wings. I had expected to order more than these, but they were so big and delicious that I finished them all and was feeling sated afterward. It was a busy Friday night and I was lucky to avoid an hour wait with a bar spot opening just as I walked up. The bartender was working his ass off. This is another spot I will definitely be returning to, especially to try their burgers.
I am a jazz lover and it felt like I needed to stop in at Jazz'd Tapas Bar. The music was nice, but the band felt shoved off in a corner of the bar and it wasn't jazz. Oh well. I had their Chevre Creole Tomato Dip. It was good, but too much like a tomato sauce for me, with not enough of the promised goat cheese. Not bad, but I wouldn't get it again. All in all, this place was nicely decorated and I am sure most of the other food is good, but I don't know that I'd rush back unless I knew jazz was on the menu.
After this, I spent most of the rest of the night just wandering around, people watching and visiting squares I hadn't seen yet. Great people watching town. I love the squares and how each one is unique from the next. So many historical markers and monuments. I don't think I'd ever get sick of strolling through them. Looked the statues in front of Telfair Academy. Popped around Totally Awesome Bar. Pretty cool place with a number of pool tables, arcade machines, and other fun attractions. I wasn't into drinking this night, so I took a look around and was on my way. Passed through Ellis Square and saw the Johnny Mercer statue. Had a massive slice of sausage pizza from Vinny Van GoGo's. Good stuff, but I enjoyed Graffito more. Completely different styles of pizza, really. Grabbed a praline from Savannah Candy Kitchen next door. Delicious. Wasn't impressed with The Bamboo Room tiki bar. We have the Disneyland of tiki bars here in Vegas so I am often a bit let down with the decor at others. I am sure the drinks were good, but I was just there to take in the atmosphere, and it was lacking. My final stop before retiring to the hotel was Abe's on Lincoln to see all the drawings hanging from every inch of the place. Super cool. Usually it's dollar bills, but it's way more fun to see all the different ways people chose to portray Mr. Lincoln. I'd come back each visit just to see some new ones.
Usually I feel some sense of pressure on the last full day to see EVERYTHING I haven't yet. Who knows when I will be back to this place? With Savannah, the pressure was off. I KNOW I will be back, and soon. Not sure how it is for you locals, and I know the summer is brutal, but this place is heaven for a tourist on a mild day.
Day 4: Saturday, January 27 - Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah Coffee Roasters, Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, Departure to Charleston
Up early again this morning, packed up and ready to depart for South Carolina. But first, a stroll through Colonial Park Cemetery. Not as outwardly impressive as Bonaventure, but so much history here. I enjoyed reading all the historical markers and learning about some of the famous people interred here, including Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence. This was less than a 5 minute walk from the hotel and a great use of some of my last hours in Savannah. This time.
Before getting over to Avis to pick up my rental car, I stopped for a light breakfast at Savannah Coffee Roasters. I had intended to get just their yogurt and granola, but I couldn't resist the chopped pecan laden piece of delicious looking monkey bread in their pastry case. This was the single best baked good I ate on the whole trip between both cities. I would kill the right man for just another bite. I will return to this place just based on this delicacy alone. Get there. Put it in your face. Thank me later.
With that, and a Chevy Malibu, I was off. On my way to Charleston, I stopped at Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, where I drove the Laurel Hill Wildlife Drive, stopping from time to time to stretch my legs. I was lucky enough to spy some alligators in the waters of the old rice fields. Always a highlight seeing these ancient predators, as long as they aren't preying on me! This was only about 30 minutes outside of town and a worthy stop for locals and tourists alike.
If you're interested, I will post a link to my Charleston report including more of the stops I made on the drive when it's complete. Spoiler alert: I liked Charleston, but I LOVED Savannah.
Thanks for taking the time to read all this. Let me know what you think of my stops and what I should definitely get to next time. I am happy to answer any questions. Have a great day!
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My ancestors I'm stuck on are:

1. *White* My 5th great-grandfather, John Augustine Lewis, from NC but moved to Georgia (1777-1825);
2. *White* My 4th great-grandfather, Rev. Aaron Adkins, from Georgia (1794-1865);
3. *Black* My great-aunt, Sadie Washington, from Pennsylvania but grew up in Indiana (1876-1962);
4. *Black* My great-uncle, John A. Washington, from Pennsylvania (1842-after 1887);
5. *Black* My 4th great-grandfather, Thomas Lane Hall, from Georgia (1821-1880);
6. *Black* My 3x great-grandmother, Patricia Ross, from Maryland - also nicknamed "Priscilla" (1810-after 1850)

We Wanted Proof
When the alcoholic and I went with our two-year-old daughter to rent videos, I kept her out of trouble while daddy selected movies. Once home, he prepared to watch all three videos while I occupied our daughter and prepared her for bed.
Suddenly, I thought, “What’s wrong with this picture?” I used to draw a great deal of satisfaction from having my husband home enjoying himself. I even took credit because keeping him happy without drinking was my first priority. This time, however, I felt resentful. Where was my movie? Why were all there videos for him? Why wasn’t he helping me take care of our daughter?
My first impulse was to be angry. I wanted to insist that he not watch his movies since he didn’t get one for me, but Al-Anon taught me to slow down and think. Had he refused to get me a video? No. Had I asked him to help with our daughter? No. Had I asked him to do any of these things? No.
Between movies I calmly asked what he would do if I had wanted to watch a movie, too. He said he’d have put one of his back. Wow! Could it really be that easy?
I have needs and I can ensure that my needs are met. I am not a victim. It’s okay to think about what would make me happy, instead of focusing on making others happy. I don’t have to blame someone else for my unhappiness. Could it be that I actually perpetuated the selfishness that I despised?
This new enlightenment caused me to reflect on my selfish dad. Whenever we traveled anywhere, Dad went into the store and bought beer for the cooler without getting any drinks for us. Did we ever or say anything to him about it? Did we even get out of the car to something for ourselves? No. We wanted him to prove he loved us by meeting our needs the way we tried to meet his.
This is how Al-Anon works for me. By opening one door at a time and letting in more light, I can walk away from yet another destructive pattern. By walking through each door, I enter a world of greater understanding.
By Patricia H., Georgia February, 1999
Reprinted with permission of The Forum, Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc., Virginia Beach, VA.

Its almost Christmas, and many NFL Fans have new coaches on their lists. So, I'm putting on my Santa hat and making changes at head coach, offensive coordinator, and defensive coordinators for the teams that I think need them.
For a note here, I am counting all interim coaches, and all teams without a named OC/DC, as vacancies. That doesn't mean that those coordinator vacancies will all be filled, or that interim coaches won't keep their jobs, but I am noting that as a starting point.
A quick summary of where we stand now:
Bills:
HC: McDermott OC: Vacant (Interim) DC: Vacant (HC Calls)
Dolphins:
HC: McDaniel OC: Frank Smith DC: Fangio
Jets:
HC: Saleh OC: Hackett DC: Ulbrich
Patriots:
HC: Bill OC: BOB DC: Vacant (HC Calls)
Ravens:
HC: Harbuagh OC: Monken DC: Macdonald
Bengals:
HC: Zac Taylor OC: Brian Callahan DC: Anarumo
Browns:
HC: Stefanski OC: AVP DC: Gym Shorts
Steelers:
HC: Tomlin OC: Vacant (interim) DC: Austin
Texans:
HC: Ryans OC: Slowik DC: Burke
Colts:
HC: Steichen OC: Cooter DC: Bradley
Jags:
HC: Pederson OC: Press Taylor DC: Mike Caldwell
Titans:
HC: Vrabel OC: Tim Kelly DC: Bowen
Broncos
HC: Payton OC: Lombardi DC: Joseph
Cheifs
HC: Reid OC: Nagy DC: Spags
Raiders:
HC: Vacant (int) OC: Vacant (Int) DC: Patrick Graham
Chargers:
HC: Vacant (INT) OC: Kellen Moore DC: Ansley
Cowboys:
HC: McCarthy OC: Schottenheimer DC: Dan Quinn
Giants:
HC: Daboll OC: Kafka DC: Wink
Eagles:
HC: Sirianni OC: Brian Johnson DC: Desai/Patricia
Commanders:
HC: Rivera OC: Bienemy DC: Vacant (HC calling as INT)
Bears
HC: Eberflus OC: Getsy DC: Vacant (HC as INT)
Lions:
HC: Dan Campbell OC: Ben Johnson DC: Aaron Glenn
Packers:
HC: Matt LeFleur OC: Stenavich DC: Joe Berry
Vikings:
HC: O’Connell OC: Wes Phillips DC: Flores
Falcons:
HC: Arthur Smith OC: Dave Ragone DC: Ryan Nielsen
Panthers:
HC: Vacant (INT) OC: Thomas Brown DC: Ejiro Evero
Saints
HC: Allen OC: Carmichael DC: Woods
Buccaneers
HC: Bowles OC: Canales DC: Vacant (HC Calls)
Cardinals:
HC: Gannon OC: Petzing DC: Rallis
Rams:
HC: McVay OC: LaFleur DC: Morris
49ers
HC: Shanahan OC: Vacant (HC Calls) DC: Wilks
Seahawks:
HC: Carroll OC: Waldron DC: Hurtt

First up: Fire more coaches!

Some dudes have jobs that really shouldn't at this point. I'm going to run down the fans that are getting a press release for their first present. Also, if your HC is canned, assume the rest of the staff goes with them.
New England Patriots: Its time. They can parse the language however they want. Mutual decision, new challenges, whatever, but the whole staff needs to go. You aren't going to get a fresh start with a 71 year old coach that has been in the job since the Clinton administration. Move on from Bill and everyone with his fingerprints on them.
New York Jets: Devastating injuries and bad drafting have made it very difficult to properly evaluate the coaching staff, but you have a team that plays hard and doesn't quit. So, Saleh gets more time, but you know who doesn't? Nathaniel Hackett. He gone.
Pittsburgh Steelers: This one hurts to type, but I think it might be time for Mike Tomlin to go. For all his strengths as a coach, over the last couple years we've seen undisciplined play, lazy players, locker room issues, and an inability to close out bad teams. The roster has issues, but it might just be time for a new coach.
Jacksonville Jaguars: The defense just isn't there, man. Talent needs improvement, but Mike Caldwell isn't him.
Tennessee Titans: Mike Vrabel seems dedicated to a style of football that just doesn't work anymore, and can't seem to understand the state of his team and roster. If he isn't willing to blow it up and start over, then he should be removed from the position.
Philadelphia Eagles: If you can't decide which of two disappointing coaches is your DC, you should probably go get a new one.
Washington Commanders: Just make them all go away.
Chicago Bears: I'm not completely out on Flus, but they definitely need two new coordinators.
Atlanta Falcons: See Washington Commanders
New Orleans Saints: It turns out, momentum from Payton and Brees isn't a valid coaching plan. Everyone is gone.

Step 2: Hire Head Coaches!

We have vacancies, now lets fill them. Some of you will be happy, some of you will not. I apologize for that, but it is what it is.
Patriots- You are looking at a fresh start across the board. A new coach, a new QB, a new scheme on both sides of the ball. You are also looking at a scenario where a coach is going to be replacing a legend, possibly the GOAT coach who came in with two rings and won six more with the team. You need someone with the coaching ability, but also someone who won't be overwhelmed by the pressure and expectations of the job. So, for the Patriots, I recommend the hiring of Rams Defensive coordinator Raheem Morris as the new head coach. He's coached offense and defense, has worked with coaches like Jon Gruden, Dan Quinn and the entire Shanahan tree, and has two rings as an assistant. He coached an actively rebuilding roster to a 10-6 season in Tampa as head coach, and he has connections to all the hottest young offensive names in football.
Steelers- The Rooney's have a type. Their last three coaches have all been former players, in their mid 30s, with a defensive background, in their first head coach job. They've all had less than a decade of experience in the NFL, and they have all won Rings in black and yellow. I look at all those factors, and I settle on one name: Patriots Linebackers coach Jerod Mayo.
Titans- We have a new general manager from the 49ers tree, so why not get a new head coach from the same. The Titans appear to have their guy for now at QB in Will Levis, so get someone in there to maximize his development and skills. Seeing what he has done with CJ Stroud and a bunch of rookies and scrubs at the skill positions, the Titans hire Texans OC Bobby Slowik as their next head coach.
Raiders- The Raiders have Antonio Pierce as their interim head coach, who is in his sixth year of coaching above the high school level. And you know what? Its kinda working. The Raiders are still a bad team, because firing coaches doesn't fix rosters, but the team is playing on a different level since he took over. I say keep him, with the understanding that he needs a strong staff. He may not be a great long term answer, but the team likes him and plays hard, and he is saying and doing the right things.
Chargers- You have Justin Herbert, which is good. You are in the AFC West, which hurts a little. Your roster and culture, respectively, are doody. So, what to do? Bring in a veteran coach and a program builder. You need someone to right the ship more than compete for a ring immediately. For that, and it hurts my heart, the Chargers hire Cowboys DC Dan Quinn as their new head coach.
Commanders- Fresh start across the board. A new owner and a new coach. Josh Harris, as an NHL/NBA owner, has shown that he likes analytics, young coaches, and is patient with rebuilds. For that, they poach Ravens DC Mike Macdonald as their new head coach.
Falcons- Atlanta has a bunch of shiny toys, and they need someone that will utilize them. Drake London, Bijan Robinson, and Kyle Pitts might just be the perfect bait to attract Lions OC Ben Johnson.
Panthers- Man, what a shitshow. A sketch offensive line, shit skill position players, a QB they sold the farm to draft, and no first round pick. Add in a meddling, impatient owner, and it makes you wonder how appealing this job actually is. I don't think that a top young candidate is going to risk burning their one shot in Carolina. So, we look at some older coaches, and the one that sticks out to me is Ravens OC Todd Monken. I was amazed he didn't get more of a shot after he made Jameis and Fitzmagic look like Brett Favre and Carson Palmer, and since then, he reinvented the Georgia Bulldogs into a modern offense and has turned Lamar Jackson and a rotating cast of survivors into a top 5 offense.
Saints- Its been a couple years. Payton is coaching in Denver and Brees has already walked away from broadcasting. Time to purge the remnants of that era from the Big Easy. The roster and the cap are gigafucked, so this isn't a win now team. So what do you do? You hire someone to grow. Get in on a coach a year early, or take an alternative tack. In this case, I am looking at a young special teams coordinator. A former safety, he played for a couple years in Washington and has been coaching special teams in Baltimore since 2014. After a decade spent under a head coach with the same background, being exposed to some of the best offensive and defensive minds in the league, Ravens ST Coordinator Chris Horton takes over the Superdome.

Step 3: Hire/Replace Coordinators

Bills- Keep Joe Brady as your OC, and let McDermott keep calling plays.
Patriots- Tapping into his past, Morris brings Rams QB Coach/PCG Zac Robinson to run the offense, and current Cowboys DL Coach Aden Durde in as DC.
Jets- Saleh is the head coach, not A-A-Ron. Hackett is out, and Dolphins PCG Darrell Bevell is in.
Ravens- All the coordinators are gone, man. But that's okay, we can fix it. Looking internally, current AHC/DL coach Anthony Weaver takes over as the DC, and externally, Eagles Senior Offensive Assistant Marcus Brady takes the OC job.
Steelers- Jerod Mayo is a young coach, so he can balance that with some experienced assistants. Current Chiefs LB coach Brendan Daly comes in to run the defense, and Kellen Moore to run the offense.
Texans- To replace Bobby Slowik, Houston takes advantage of a coach in a bad spot and hires Eric Bieniemy as OC.
Jaguars- Pederson likes his guys, and brings in one of his former fellow KC coaches as DC: Cowboys DB coach Al Harris.
Titans- Stick with who you know. Slowik brings in current Texans PGCs Cory Undlin as DC and Ben McDaniels as OC.
Raiders- Continuity is good. Keep Patrick Graham as DC, and promote Scott Turner to OC.
Chargers- DQ goes back to his ATL days for this one. Current University of Texas OC/Coach Kyle Flood and current Jets safeties coach Marquand Manuel take the coordinator jobs.
Cowboys- Needing to replace Dan Quinn, Dallas promotes from within and makes Joe Whitt the next DC.
Commanders- Mike Mac brings his Baltimore buddy Chris Hewitt with him as DC, and former Wolverine and current Terps OC Josh Gattis as OC.
Eagles- Sirriani poaches his old Charger buddy and current Rams DL coach Eric Henderson to run the Eagles defense.
Bears- In an Indy role reversal, Eberflus hires former Panthers HC Frank Reich to run the offense, while promoting his LB coach and longtime assistant Dave Borgonzi to DC.
Falcons- To run the defense, Johnson brings in the man I thought would run the defense in San Francisco, Kris Kocurek. For offensive help, he hires veteran coach Bill Lazor.
Panthers- The upside to an older coach is a lot of buddies. He'll bring Bills Senior Offensive Assistant Mike Shula as OC and Georgia DC Will Muschamp as DC.
Saints- Chris Horton has to start from scratch here. His old team has been picked clean. So, he looks into his past and gets creative. For OC, we bring in Rams AHC/TE coach Jon Embree and for DC, he lures in Leslie Frazier.
Rams- They promote Aubrey Pleasant from PGC to DC.
Teams need to finish filling out their rosters, but my ass isn't crazy enough to do that. So, let me know what you think, and which OC/DC I missed, because there probably is one.

Date: 12/15/2023

Reading time: 13 minutes, 2736 words

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Some 79% of Armenia's permanent population have resided in a particular locality since birth - National Statistical Committee

79% of Armenia's permanent population - 79% (2,318,064 people) permanently resided in a particular locality since birth. 76.8% (471,883 people) had Armenia as their previous place of residence, 19% (117,027 people) - other countries, and 4.2% (25,757 people) Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. 92.3% of the permanent population acquired Armenian citizenship by birth, 7.6% granted it, and 0.1% acquired it in other ways. Among households, those with two members dominated with 21.4%.

ArkaAm, Armenia's permanent population stood at 2,932,731 in 2022

Gyumri Dry Port feasibility study reaches final stage - adviser to Economy Minister

The development of a feasibility study of Gyumri Dry Port project has reached the final stage. A number of foreign companies, including from the Middle East, have shown interest in the project. The Dry Port will be adjacent to both the Shirak International Airport and the railway station.

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AMD 43 mln fines imposed on 109 companies in Armenia for unregistered employees

Armenia’s State Revenue Committee said 109 companies in November hired employees without the written registration as required by law. It said the companies with unregistered employees were fined to the tune of AMD 43 million ($1 - 404.58 drams)

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New residential complex worth 31.9 billion drams will be built in Armavir region of Armenia

Armenian government at a meeting on Thursday approved an investment project designed to build Nork residential complex in the town of Armavir. The investment project was presented by Arstor LLC. The company pledged to create 400 new jobs.

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Pashinyan invited to attend 3rd Landlocked Developing Countries Conference in Rwanda in 2024

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received Thursday UN Under Secretary-General, High Representative for Landlocked Developing Countries Rabab Fatima. The meeting held in Yerevan under the title "Promoting equal, affordable and inclusive transport connectivity for sustainable and resilient economies" is the formal thematic meeting to be organized ahead of the Third Conference of Landlocked Countries (LLDC) to be held in Kigali in June, 2024.

ArkaAm

EDB considers the possibility of investing 165 million dollars in Armenian projects in 2024

EDB is considering the possibility of investing $165 million in Armenian projects in 2024. EDB Senior Executive Director Denis Ilyin: "Our activity in the republic will remain at the level of at least 100 million dollars" He also mentioned that the project of the transportation and logistics center in Gyumri, construction of the metro station " is under consideration.

ArkaAm, EDB is preparing to sign a $51 million contract for the Sevan-Hrazdan cascade

Hungary blocks €50bn of EU funding for Ukraine

EU leaders have agreed to a deal to allow Ukraine to join the European Union. The deal was reached in Brussels ahead of the start of next year's negotiations.

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💵 Economy

Armenia and Russia are allies, assures Russian Deputy PM

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexey Overchuk at the intergovernmental session on economic cooperation. Overchuk: ''We and Armenia are allies. Certainly, the high dynamics of our allied cooperation is due to intensive and reliable dialogue at the highest level'

Armenpress, Negotiations underway for the construction of nuclear power units in Armenia: Overchuk, Armenian PM, Russian Deputy PM discuss topics related to cooperation in the EAEU format, Negotiations are underway to build new nuclear power units in Armenia. Overchuk, Armenia and Russia sign framework agreement on extension of service life of Armenian NPP until 2036, Armenian PM, Russian Deputy PM discuss issues of bilateral economic cooperation

Russia and Armenia have actually reached parity in terms of bilateral trade

Russia is Armenia's leading trade partner; in terms of bilateral trade, the countries have now managed to reach parity. Trade turnover between Russia and Armenia in the first nine months of 2023 surged by 43.5% year-on-year to $4.4 billion. The bulk of settlements in bilateral trade is made in Russian rubles.

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IMF opens access to $24.3 mln for Armenia under SBA agreement

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the second review under the Stand-by Arrangement with Armenia. Armenia’s strong growth momentum continued through 2023. Supported by robust private consumption and investment, the economy is projected to grow by 7 percent in 2023 before moderating to 5 percent in 2024. The Armenian authorities continue to treat the SBA as precautionary.

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🧪 Science & Technology

Flyone Armenia airline launches daily flights to Sheremetyevo International Airport

First Armenian national airline FLYONE ARMENIA launches daily flights to Sheremetyevo International Airport from December 15th. Currently, the airline operates daily flights from Zvartnots International Airport in Yerevan to the international airports of Vnukovo and Domodedovo in Moscow.

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🎭 Culture

Difficulties in relations between Russia and Armenia are surmountable, says Galuzin

Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Galuzin says difficulties in relations could be overcome with prospect of further development of relations between the two countries. According to the source, Galuzin pointing out the many historical, cultural, humanitarian and economic ties between the peoples of Armenia and Russia.

Armenpress

⚽ Sport

Armenia’s Hayk Martirosyan sole leader in the European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship

Grandmaster Hayk Martirosyan is the sole leader in the European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship 2023. 150 chess players are taking part in the tournament being held in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.

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Philadelphia Eagles (0-0) @ New England Patriots(0-0)

For the first time in over 20 years the Eagles will face the Patriots without Tom Brady at the helm. Last time the two played without Brady leading the team was all the way back in 1999, so it will be nice for the Eagles to face someone else back there as Brady put together a 5-2 record against the Eagles and nearly evened up a series the Eagles had dominated. Instead the Eagles will get their first look at Brady’s replacement, 3rd year QB Mac Jones. After a phenomenal rookie season Jones struggled with a sophomore slump which may have been due to the Patriots problem in the playcalling department which they hope to have remedied bringing back former OC Bill O’Brien. The Eagles new DC Sean Desai will hope to make sure those struggles continue for the Patriots though. Desai replaces Jonathan Gannon who left in shame after his defense was thoroughly embarrassed in the Super Bowl and there reports he already had his foot out the door due to tampering by the Cardinals. Desai isn’t the only new face though, the Eagles defense lost a number of key players in free agency including CJ Gardner Johnson, Javon Hargrave, TJ Edwards, Marcus Epps and Kyzir White. But the Eagles also added two Georgia first round picks in Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith and added Nicholas Morrow and Terrell Edmunds in FA. The new look Eagled defense will look to make their mark week 1 and pick up where they left off last season where they led the league in sacks. On the other side of the ball the Eagles offense only got better while they did lose Miles Sanders in FA, they replaced him with D’Andre Swift and Rashaad Penny both of whom could be huge additions if they can stay healthy this season. The team fell short last year in the Super Bowl, but they are still hungry and their path back to the big game starts Sunday afternoon in Foxboro. And the Eagles will have the opportunity to ruin Tom Brady’s day where the Patriots are honoring his achievement at halftime.

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Date
Sunday, September 10, 2023

Game Time	Game Location
4:25 PM - Eastern	Gillette Stadium
3:25 PM - Central	1 Patriot Place
2:25 PM - Mountain	Foxborough, MA 02035
1:25 PM - Pacific	Wikipedia - Map

Weather Forecast
Stadium Type: Open Air
Surface: Grass
Temperature: 74°F
Feels Like: 74°F
Forecast: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63.
Chance of Precipitation:49%
Cloud Coverage: 643%
Wind:SW 8 to 12 MPH

Betting Odds
Oddsshark Information
Favorite/Opening Line: Philadelphia -3.5
OveUnder: 45
Record VS. Spread: Eagles 0-0, Patriots 0-0

Where to Watch on TV
*CBS will broadcast Sunday’s game to a regional audience. Jim Nantz will handle play-by-play duties and Tony Romo will provide analysis and call the plays before they happen. Tracy Wolfson will report from the sidelines.
TV Map - Week 1 TV Coverage Map

Internet Streams
NFL Streams - Look here 30 minutes before the game for Streams

Radio Streams
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List of Eagles Radio network member stations with internet broadcast availability
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Listen to Merrill Reese and Mike Quick
Calling the game on 94WIP and the Eagles Radio Network will be Merrill Reese, the NFL’s longest-tenured play-by-play announcer (47th season). Joining Reese in the radio booth will be former Eagles All-Pro wide receiver Mike Quick, while Howard Eskin will report from the sidelines.

Location	Station	Frequency
Philadelphia, PA	WIP-FM	94.1 FM and 610 AM
Allentown, PA	WCTO-FM	96.1 FM
Atlantic City/South Jersey	WENJ-FM	97.3 FM
Levittown, PA	WBCB-AM	1490 AM
Northumberland, PA	WEGH-FM	107.3 FM
Pottsville, PA	WPPA-AM	1360 AM
Reading, PA	WEEU-AM	830 AM
Salisbury/Ocean City, MD	WAFL-FM	97.7 FM
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA	WEJL-FM	96.1 FM
Salisbury/Ocean City, MD	WAFL-FM	97.7 FM
Salisbury/Ocean City, MD	WEJL-AM	630 AM
Salisbury/Ocean City, MD	WBAX-AM	1240 AM
Williamsport, PA	WBZD-FM	93.3 FM
Wilmington, DE	WDEL-FM/AM	101.7 FM
York/LancasteHarrisburg, PA	WSOX-FM	96.1 FM

Philadelphia Spanish Radio
Rickie Ricardo, Macu Berral and Gus Salazar will handle the broadcast in Spanish on Mega 105.7 FM in Philadelphia and the Eagles Spanish Radio Network.

Location	Station	Frequency
Philadelphia, PA	LA MEGA	105.7 FM
Allentown, PA	WSAN	1470 AM
Atlantic City, NJ	WIBG	1020 AM; 101.3 FM

Patriots Radio
Patriots Radio Network Socci returns for his 11th season in the booth as play-by-play broadcasters on 98.5 The Sports Hub. Socci is joined in the booth by former Patriots quarterback Scott Zolak, who's entering his 12th season as action analyst.

National Radio
ESPN Radio will broadcast the game to a national audience with Steve Levy on play-by-play and Sal Paolantonio providing analysis.

Satellite Radio

Station	Eagles Channel	Patriots Channel
Sirius Radio	SIRI 135 (Internet 825)	SIRI 82 (Internet 805)
XM Radio	XM 385 (Internet 825)	XM 229(Internet 805)
Sirius XM Radio	SXM 385 (Internet 825)	SXM 229 (Internet 805)

Eagles Social Media	Patriots Social Media
Website	Website
Facebook	Facebook
Twitter	Twitter
Instagram	Instagram
Snapchat: Eagles	Snapchat: Patriots

NFC East Standings

NFC EAST	Record	PCT	Home	Road	Div	Conf	PF	PA	Net Pts	Streak
Eagles	0-0	.000	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	NA
Cowboys	0-0	.000	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	NA
Giants	0-0	.000	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	NA
Redskins	0-0	.000	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	NA

Series Information
Philadelphia Eagles lead the New England Patriots in the series, 8-7 (7-6 regular season; 1-1 in playoffs)
Series History
Head to Head Box Scores
First Game Played
November 4, 1973 at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia Eagles 24 – New England Patriots 23
Points Leader
The Philadelphia Eagles lead the New England Patriots (355-343)
Coaches Record
Nick Sirianni: 0-0 against the Patriots
Bill Belichick: 5-2 against Eagles
Coaches Head to Head
Nick Sirianni vs Bill Belichick: First Meeting
Quarterback Record
Jalen Hurts: Against Patriots: 0-0
Mac Jones: Against Eagles: 0-0
Quarterbacks Head to Head
Jalen Hurts vs Mac Jones: First meeting between the QBs
Records per Stadium
Record @ Lincoln Financial Field: Patriots lead 3-0
Record @ Gillette Stadium: Patriots lead 2-1

Rankings and Last Meeting Information
AP Pro 32 Ranking
Eagles No. 12 - Patriots No. 2
2023 Record
Eagles: 0-0
Patriots 0-0
Last Meeting
Sunday, February 4th, 2019
Eagles 10 - Patriots 17
The Eagles jumped out to a quick 10-0 lead on the Patriots in the first half, but the offense sputtered after that, despite a strong showing from the defense which held the Patriots to just 17 points. After driving down the field 95 yards and scoring a touchdown, the Eagles forgot how to run the football. The loss of RT Lane Johnson to a concussion certainly didn’t help the Eagles ability to run the ball and neither did the brief loss of Sanders in the 3rd quarter, but Doug Pederson and Mike Groh completely abandoned the run game early despite averaging over 4 yards per carry. The Patriots climbed back into the game with 3 field goals and took the lead in the 3rd with a trick play and Edleman throwing a TD pass to Dorsett. The Eagles offense continued to flounder, but had a chance late before Carson Wentz missed 3 straight passes that would have given Eagles a first down. Despite those misses, Wentz put a TD pass on a dime to Nelson Agholor only for the ball to hit him right in both hands and fall to the ground, handing the Eagles the fifth loss of the season. To make matters worse Agholor sprained his already weak confidence on the way down and has missed practice this entire week following the game.
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Last 10 Meetings

Date	Winner	Loser	Score
11/17/19	Patriots	Eagles	17-10
02/04/18	Eagles	Patriots	41-33
12/06/15	Eagles	Patriots	35-28
11/27/11	Patriots	Eagles	38-20
11/25/07	Patriots	Eagles	31-28
02/06/05	Patriots	Eagles	24-21
09/14/03	Patriots	Eagles	31-10
12/19/99	Eagles	Patriots	24-9
11/04/90	Eagles	Patriots	48-20
11/29/87	Eagles	Patriots	34-31

Injury Reports	Depth Charts
Eagles	Eagles
Patriots	Patriots

2023 “Expert” Picks
Week 1 - "Expert" Picks

2022 Team Stats
Eagles Season Stats
Patriots Season Stats

 
2022 Regular Season Stats (Starters/Leaders)
 
Passing

Name	CMP	ATT	PCT	YDS	TD	INT	RAT
Hurts	306	460	66.5%	3701	22	6	101.6
Jones	288	442	65.2%	2997	14	11	84.8

 
Rushing

Name	ATT	YDS	YDS/G	AVG	TD
Sanders	259	1269	74.6	4.9	11
Stevenson	210	1040	61.2	5.0	5

 
Receiving

Name	REC	YDS	YDS/G	AVG	TD
Brown	88	1496	88.0	17.0	11
Myers	67	804	12.0	57.4	6

 
Sacks

Name	Sacks	Team Total
Reddick	16	70
Judon	15.5	54

 
Tackles

Name	Total	Solo	Assist	Sacks
Edwards	159	99	60	2.0
Bentley	125	62	63	3.0

 
Interceptions

Name	Ints	Team Total
Gardner-Johnson	6	17
McCourty/Jones	4	19

 
Punting

Name	ATT	YDS	LONG	AVG	NET	IN 20	TB	BP
Siposs	44	2005	59	45.6	40.5	16	3	0
Palardy	42	1781	58	42.4	36.4	10	5	1

 
Kicking

Name	ATT	MADE	%	LONG	PAT
Elliot	23	20	87.0%	56	51/53
Folk	37	32	86.5%	54	32/35

 
Kick Returns

Name	ATT	YDS	AVG	LONG	TD
Scott	15	406	27.1	66	0
Jones	27	645	23.9	46	0

 
Punt Returns

Name	RET	YDS	AVG	LONG	TD	FC
Covey	33	308	9.3	27	0	19
Jones	29	362	12.5	84	1	8

League Rankings 2022

Offense Rankings

Category	Eagles Stat	Eagles Rank	Patriots Stat	Patriots Rank
Total Offense	389.1	3rd	314.6	26th
Rush Offense	147.6	5th	106.6	24th
Pass Offense	241.5	9th	298.0	20th
Points Per Game	28.1	3rd	21.4	17th
3rd-Down Offense	45.9%	4th	34.9%	27th
4th-Down Offense	68.8%	4th	38.5%	29th
Red Zone Offense (TD%)	67.8%	3rd	42.2%	32nd

Defense Rankings

Category	Eagles Stat	Eagles Rank	Patriots Stat	Patriots Rank
Total Defense	301.5	2nd	322.0	8th
Rush Defense	121.6	16th(t)	105.5	6th
Pass Defense	179.8	1st	216.4	16th
Points Per Game	20.2	8th	20.4	11th
3rd-Down Defense	38.6%	14th	40.3%	21st
4th-Down Defense	60.0%	25th	37.0%	2nd
Red Zone Defense (TD%)	52.7%	11th	58.0%	22nd

Team

Category	Eagles Stat	Eagles Rank	Patriots Stat	Patriots Rank
Turnover Diff.	+8	3rd	+7	4th(t)
Penalty Per Game	5.3	8th	6.1	23rd(t)
Penalty Yards Per Game	40.1	9th	49.5	21st(t)

Connections
Eagles Owner Jeffrey Lurie grew up as a Patriots fan and attempted to purchase Patriots in 1993 before being outbid by Robert Kraft. He purchased the Philadelphia Eagles the following season.
Patriots Assistant HC Joe Judge was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Philadelphia suburbs attending Lansdale Catholic HS.
Patriots S Jalen Mills was drafted by the Eagles in the 7th round of the 2016 draft and was part of the 2017 Super Bowl Team and played 5 seasons for them.
Eagles Senior Defensive Assistant Matt Patricia worked as a coach with the Patriots from 2004-2017 working his way up to Defensive Coordinator, after leaving for a HC job he returned to the Patriots from 2021-2022.

2023 Pro Bowlers

Eagles	Patriots
QB Jalen Hurts (Starter)	OLB Matthew Judon
C Jason Kelce(Starter)
OT Lane Johnson (Starter)
OG Landon Dickerson (Starter)
WR AJ Brown (Starter)
CB Darius Slay (Starter)
RB Mile Sanders

OLB Hassan Reddick

Recap from Last Week’s Games.
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General
Referee: Shawn Hochuli
Nick Sirianni enters his third season as the Eagles’ head coach with a combined 23-11 record (.676), which marks the most wins by a head coach in their first two years with the team. In 2022, Sirianni guided Philadelphia to its winningest season in franchise history, posting an NFL-high-tying 14-3 record en route to a Super Bowl LVII appearance (L, 35-38 vs. Kansas City). As a result, he became the second head coach in league history to add 5+ victories to their team’s record in consecutive years, joining Bill Walsh (1983-84, 49ers).
Philadelphia scored a franchise-record 477 points in 2022, including team records in total TDs (59), scrimmage TDs (57) and rushing TDs (32). The Eagles’ 32 rushing TDs tied for the 3rd-most in NFL history, trailing the 1962 Packers (36) as well as the 1976 Steelers (33).
Philadelphia also finished the 2022 regular season with franchise records in total first downs (385), third-down conversion rate (45.9%), fourth-down conversions (22) and red zone TD efficiency (67.8%).
Defensively, the Eagles logged the 3rd-most sacks (70) in NFL history in 2022, behind the 1984 Bears (72) and 1989 Vikings (71). Philadelphia also became the first NFL team since 1982 to have four different players record double-digit sacks in the same season.
Last season, six Eagles earned Associated Press All-Pro accolades, including Jalen Hurts, who was selected an NFL Most Valuable Player finalist and finished 2nd in MVP voting, trailing only Patrick Mahomes. He became the fourth NFL QB since 2000 to lead his team to 14+ wins while posting 35+ total TDs (tied Randall Cunningham in 1990 for the franchise record) and 8-or-fewer giveaways, joining Mahomes (2020), Aaron Rodgers (2011) and Tom Brady (2010). His 13 rushing TDs were the 2nd-most by an NFL QB (Cam Newton - 14 in 2011).
Philadelphia has the most season-opening victories in the NFL since 2011, capturing 10 of its last 12 kickoff weekend matchups (6-1 record in Week 1 games since 2016). In that span, the Eagles are one of two teams with 9+ wins in season openers, joining Kansas City (9-3).
Philadelphia, which is 7-2 in season-opening away games since 2009, begins on the road for the fourth consecutive year. Most recently, the Eagles defeated the Lions, 38-35, at Ford Field in 2022.
Philadelphia owns an 8-7 overall record in the all-time series vs. New England and is 1-1 at Gillette Stadium. The last time the Eagles faced the Patriots on the road was on 12/6/15, when they won 35-28.
In 2022, Jalen Hurts went 14-1 as a starter during the regular season. Since 2021, Hurts owns the 2nd-best winning percentage (.733, 22-8) among NFL QBs, trailing only Patrick Mahomes (.765, 26-8). He has led the Eagles to wins in 17 of his last 18 regular-season starts.
Hurts completed 306-of-460 (66.5%) passes for 3,701 yards (8.1 avg.), 22 TDs, 6 INTs and a 101.5 rating while also rushing 165 times for 760 yards and 13 TDs last season. Overall, he combined for a team-record 4,461 total yards and tied a franchise record with 35 total TDs. His 35 TDs were the 4th-most in the NFL, behind Patrick Mahomes (45), Josh Allen (42) and Joe Burrow (40). He also ranked 3rd in total yards per game (297.5), trailing only Mahomes (329.9) and Allen (315.3).
A.J. Brown (career-high 1,496) and DeVonta Smith (career-high 1,196) became the first 1,000+ yard receiving duo in team history in 2022.
In his first season with the Eagles, Brown set a franchise record with 1,496 receiving yards, surpassing the previous mark owned by Mike Quick in 1983 (1,409). Smith finished his second NFL season with 95 receptions, which are the most by a WR in Eagles history, eclipsing the previous record established by Irving Fryar in 1996 (88).
Since taking over as the Eagles’ primary TE in 2021, Dallas Goedert ranks 4th among his position in receiving yards (1,532), behind Travis Kelce (2,463), Mark Andrews (2,208) and George Kittle (1,675). He also ranks 1st among NFL TEs in YAC per reception (7.3), 2nd in yards per catch (13.8) and 3rd in YAC (806) over the last two seasons.
Jason Kelce has started 139 consecutive regular-season games, which marks the 2nd-longest active streak in the NFL, trailing only Jake Matthews (144). It also represents the longest streak by an NFL center since Casey Wiegmann from 2001-11 (175). Kelce’s streak is the 2nd-longest in franchise history, behind Jon Runyan (144, 2000-08).
According to Pro Football Focus, Lane Johnson has not allowed a sack since Week 11 of 2020 or a QB hit since Week 7 of 2021.
In 2022, Haason Reddick became the first NFL player to produce 10.0+ sacks in three straight years with three different teams (career-high 16.0 with Philadelphia in 2022; 11.0 with Carolina in 2021; 12.5 with Arizona in 2020). Reddick, whose 16.0 sacks ranked T-2nd in the NFL, behind Nick Bosa (18.5), also led the league with 5 strip sacks.
Brandon Graham became just the second player in NFL history to record 10.0+ sacks for the first time in their career at age 34 or older, joining Ed ‘Too Tall’ Jones with Dallas in 1985 (13.0). He also became the oldest player with 11.0+ sacks in a season since 2017, when Julius Peppers (age 37) and Terrell Suggs (age 35) accomplished the feat.
Josh Sweat, who leads the Eagles’ defense with 28.5 sacks dating back to 2019, registered a career-high 11.0 sacks in 2022. He has increased his sack total during every season of his NFL career.
Fletcher Cox totaled 14 QB hits, 7.0 sacks, 1 FF and 1 FR in 2022.
James Bradberry and Darius Slay were the only CB tandem in the NFL to both finish the season with 14+ PDs and 3+ INTs. Bradberry’s teamhigh 17 PDs were the most by an Eagle since Patrick Robinson in 2017 (18). Bradberry also limited opponents to the 3rd-lowest passer rating (55.9) in the NFL last season (min. 50 targets).

Draft Picks

Eagles	Patriots
DT Jalen Carter	CB Christian Gonzalez
OLB Nolan Smith	DE Keion White
OT Tyler Steen	Marte Mapu
S Sydney Brown	C Jake Andrews
CB Kelee Ringo	K Chad Ryland
QB Tanner McKee	G Sidy Sow
DE Moro Ojomo	G Atonio Mafi
	WR Kayshon Boutte
	P Bryce Baringer
	WR Demario Douglas
	CB Ameer Speed
	CB Isaiah Bolden

Notable Off-season Additions

Eagles	Patriots
RB Rashaad Penny	WR Juju Smith-Schuster
RB D’Andre Swift	OT Calvin Anderson
TE Albert Okwuegbunam	RB James Robinson
QB Marcus Mariota	TE Mike Gesicki
LB Nicholas Morrow	OT Riley Reiff
S Terrell Edmunds	OLB Chris Board
	RB Ezekiel Elliott

Notable Off-season Departures

Eagles	Patriots
OT Andre Dillard	WR Nelson Agholor
DT Javon Hargrave	RB Damien Harris
S Marcus Epps	WR Jakobi Myers
S CJ Gardner-Johnson	CB Joejuan Williams
LB TJ Edwards	OT Isaiah Wynn
QB Gardner Minshew	P Michael Palardy
RB Miles Sanders	QB Bailey Zappe
LB Kyzir White
OG Issac Seumalo
DT Ndamukong Suh
DE Robert Quinn
DT Linval Joseph

WR Zach Pascal

Milestones
Eagles QB Jalen Hurts (7906) needs 219 yards to move up to 10th on the Eagles all-time passing yards list passing QB Bobby Thompson.
Eagles QB Jalen Hurts (44) needs 3 passing TDs to move up to a tie for 13th on the Eagles all-time passing TD list tying QB Roman Gabriel.
Eagles QB Jalen Hurts (1898) needs 102 rushing yards for 2000 career rushing yards.

Eagles QB Jalen Hurts needs 3 rushing TDs to move up to 8th on the Eagles all-time rushing TD list passing QB Donovan McNabb. Eagles QB Jalen Hurts needs 7 rushing TDs to break the Eagles record currently held by Randall Cunningham for most rushing TDs by a QB. Eagles DE Brandon Graham(70) needs 7 sacks to move up to 3rd on the Eagles all-time sack list passing DE Clyde Simmons.

Pro Football Focus Matchup Charts courtesy of PFF Edge (join.profootballfocus.com/edge/)

WDB Matchups (CAPS = expected shadow coverage)

Matchups to Watch
Calvin Anderson vs. Haason Reddick
The Patriots put starting right tackle Riley Reiff on the IR earlier this week after he suffered a knee injury in the preseason finale. That means the backup tackle Calvin Anderson will start this week and he will line up against one of the best pass rushers in the league in Hassan Reddick. It will be a nice test for Reddick who is returning from thumb surgery earlier this summer. Anderson also will have little to no chemistry with RG Mike Onwenu who missed all of training camp with ankle surgery. The two need to be wary of the stunt the Eagles run with Reddick and Reddicks speed around the edge. If the Eagles get a head and bottle up the run it could be a long day for Mac Jones.
*Rhamondre Stevenson vs Eagles Front Seven *
If there was a weak point in the Eagles defense last season it was their run defense. Thankfully for them their offense was so strong and that they were playing from ahead a lot forcing opposing teams to pass the ball. Stevenson is coming off a 1000 yard season and is dangerous catching the ball out of the backfield as well. With the addition of Bill O’Brien returning to be the OC with the Patriots we could see an uptick of RPOs which O’Brien ran most recently at Alabama, but also ran with Houston and Penn State. The RPO lends itself to Stevensons game where he has great guys running the football, but can be deadly in space and has great hands to catch the ball. The Eagles defense needs to play discipline and not let Stevenson run free to pick up first downs and extend drives.
Matt Judon vs Jordan Mailata
OLB Matt Judon has been a sack machine since joining the Patriots, he had 15.5 sacks last season and 12.5 in 2021. You have to think with numbers like that they will line up Judon over LT Jordan Mailata who had an up and down season last year after having a breakout year in 2021 as opposed Lane Johnson who hasn’t given up a sack since week 11 of 2020. Mailata has the size and quickness to deal with Judon, but he needs to stay disciplined and understand his responsibilities. Many of his sacks and hurries he gave up last season were due to mental mistakes as opposed to getting physically beat by the rusher. Mailata was also playing through shoulder injury which may have led to some overthinking and overcompensating. Still Mailata needs to be on his game this week facing one of the best pass rushers in the league.
Mac Jones vs the Eagles Defense
Mac Jones came out of the gate his rookie year making the Pro Bowl and finishing second in OROY voting, but suffered from a sophomore slump last year which can at least partially be attributed to an ankle injury he suffered in week 3 which caused him to miss 3 games. Still Jones wasn’t as sharp and the Patriots play calling was very lackluster. The Patriots addressed the play calling issue by bringing back former OC Bill O’Brien who was OC for Alabama the last 2 seasons and known for his fiery demeanor and strong playcalling abilities. Both will be put to the test against an Eagles defense which was first in the league against the pass last season and led the league in sacks. The Eagles will look to get after Jones early and often in week 1 make Jones uncomfortable and force him into turning the ball over something he did quite a bit last year. If the Eagles do that it could be a long day for Jones and the Patriots as giving the ball back to the Eagles high power offense is never a good idea.

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