Terrance "Terry" Williams (born February 27, 1966, in Pennsylvania) is a prisoner who was sentenced to death for a murder committed at the age of 18.
[1] His death sentence was overturned on June 9, 2016, by the U.S. Supreme Court via Williams v. Pennsylvania, and he was resentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
Finally, Williams drove the butcher knife through the back of Hamilton's neck until it protruded through the other side.
"[4] Six months later, Williams, then 18, and Marc Draper convinced Amos Norwood to go to a cemetery, where they beat him to death with a tire iron and then hid the body behind some tombstones.
[5] Williams took Norwood's car, along with cash and credit cards he stole from the body, and drove to Atlantic City with Draper and Ronald Rucker.
In reality, Draper's directions led Norwood to a secluded area adjacent to the Ivy Hill Cemetery.
"[6] After the use of Norwood's calling card led police to Rucker, who in turn implicated Williams and Draper.
[7] A petition for commutation of his sentence by the Governor of Pennsylvania has been signed by nearly 150 former judges and prosecutors, child and health specialists, and former jurors at his trial.
Jurors who signed the petition in September 2012 indicated that if they had been aware of the facts, they would not have requested the death penalty, but life in prison.
[9] On September 13, a bipartisan group, led by State Senator Daylin Leach, a Montgomery County Democrat, and State Senator Stewart Greenleaf, a Montgomery County Republican, asked Pennsylvania Governor, Tom Corbett, for clemency.
She says it is time for Williams' sentence to be carried out: "Abolishing the Death Penalty is a good thing.