Jay Wesley Neill was born on April 9, 1965, and at 18-years-old he joined the United States Army in 1983.

[1] He was discharged from the military in the summer of 1984 after disclosing that he was homosexual, and quickly began having financial difficulties.

The Geronimo bank was a small facility, which was housed in a prefabricated building, and usually had only two tellers and no surveillance cameras or security guards.

Neill commented to Johnson on more than one occasion on the absence of the security measures, and how easy he thought it would be to commit a robbery at the bank.

The tellers, Kay Bruno (42), Jerri Bowles (19), and Joyce Mullenix (25) were told to lie face down on the floor, where Neill then stabbed them to death.

Marked bills stolen from the bank were used to pay for hotel rooms, limousine rides and shopping excursions.

[7] During his last days on death row, Neill described his spiritual journey since his incarceration; the letter concluded, "Above all, I enjoy the sharing of love, and positive thoughts.

[10] Neill's sentence appeal was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court on October 7, 2002, and he was executed by lethal injection on December 12.

His final meal consisted of a double cheeseburger, fries, peach or cherry cobbler, a pint of vanilla ice cream and a large bottle of cran-grape juice.