On
this date, May 22, 2001, Terrance Anthony James was executed by lethal injection
in Oklahoma. He was convicted of murdering his cellmate, Mark Allen Berry on 6
February 1983. I got the information about him from clarkprosecutor.org.
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Terrance
Anthony James
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Inmate: JAMES, Terrance
Received by DOC: 10/4/1985
Date of Execution: 5/22/2001 # of Oklahoma
Executions Since 1915: 125
Age at Execution: 41
Race: White
Gender: Male
County: Muskogee
On Death Row: 5,710 days
Method: Lethal Injection
The
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set a May 22 execution date for Terrance A.
James, who was convicted of strangling a man in a Federal jail in Muskogee in
1983. James, 41, was sentenced to death by a jury for killing Mark Allen Berry,
25, on Feb. 6, 1983 when James was 22. Terrence James and Sammy Van Woudenberg
were convicted of first-degree murder in Berry's death, Attorney General Drew Edmondson
said. Van Woudenberg was in the Muskogee jail on a federal kidnapping charge.
He also was sentenced to death in Berry's slaying. James had been serving a
five-year sentence after pleading guilty to theft, but he and another inmate,
Dennis Earl Brown, blamed Berry, 25, for their arrests, and thought he was a
"snitch". Berry was in the jail awaiting trial on a charge of
stealing government property and was killed while he and Brown played cards
around 4:30 in the morning. After Van Woudenberg put a piece of paper over the
camera, James approached Berry from behind, wrapped a wire from a broom around
his neck and strangled him. Brown held Berry's feet and put his hand over
Berry's mouth. James, Brown and Van Woudenberg then hanged Berry in a shower stall
to make it appear that he had committed suicide, prosecutors said. Brown
pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received 35 years in prison for
testifying against James and Van Woudenberg, prosecutors said.
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