Marie Dean Arrington
| Marie Dean Arrington | |
|---|---|
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| FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive | |
| Charges | Prison escape (originally convicted of murder) |
| Description | |
| Born | August 8, 1933 |
| Died | May 10, 2014 (aged 80) Ocala, Florida |
| Status | |
| Added | May 29, 1969 |
| Caught | December 22, 1971 |
| Number | 301 |
| Captured | |
Marie Dean Arrington (August 8, 1933 — May 10, 2014)[1] was an American criminal. In 1969 she became the second woman to be placed on the list of FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.[1]
Originally sentenced to death for the murder of Vivian Ritter, a legal secretary who worked in Leesburg, Florida for a public defender who unsuccessfully represented her two children on felony charges, Arrington escaped from prison in 1969 while awaiting execution by cutting through a window screen and fleeing in her pajamas.
After she was caught, she was sentenced in 1972 to 10 additional years for escape, but her death sentence was commuted to life in prison when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down capital punishment as unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia (1972).[2]
Arrington died on May 10, 2014 in Lowell Correctional Institution in Marion County, Florida, the same institution from which she escaped. She was 80 years old.[2]
References
- ^ a b Kathleen A. O'Shea (1999). Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 120–. ISBN 978-0-275-95952-4. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
- ^ a b Erica Rodriguez, Notorious Leesburg murderess Marie Arrington dead at 80, Orlando Sentinel (June 29, 2014).