Leslie Dale Martin

[4] On the evening of June 20, 1991, Martin and a friend, Michael Roland, went to a lounge in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

In the early hours of June 21, Burgin asked Martin for a lift home and they were last seen leaving the lounge together.

He then pulled her out of the vehicle and strangled her with a rope, placed a board over her neck, and jumped on it several times until she died.

However, blood was found on Martin's clothes, truck seat cover, and the wooden board recovered near Burgin's body.

Using smuggled hacksaw blades, the four men cut through their cell doors and a steel-barred window.

[8] In January 2002, Martin was overheard talking with another inmate by two death row corrections officers about another escape attempt.

In this escape attempt, Martin planned to take hostages and would commandeer a vehicle which he would use to ram through the prison gates.

Because of this, Martin was moved to a cell right next to the execution chamber where he would be unable to take hostages and would only have a single guard to talk to.

[10] On March 28, the entire court refused to act on the request and Martin was rescheduled for execution on May 10.