Crime : Homicide Perpetration 4 November 1997 chart Placidus Equal_H.
Crime : Trial dates June 1998 chart Placidus Equal_H.
Crime : Trial dates 30 June 1998 (Convicted of two counts of first degree murder) chart Placidus Equal_H.
Death:Death by Execution 2 May 2000 at 9:28 PM in Grady (Lethal injection, age 28) chart Placidus Equal_H.
American criminal convicted of murder and executed in Arkansas by lethal injection. She was convicted of the 4 November 1997 murder of her two young children, Justin Dalton Thomas and Shelby Alexis Riggs, at the familys Sherwood, Arkansas, home. Executed at age 28 at Cummins Unit, Lincoln County, Arkansas at 9:28 pm CDT on 2 May 2000, she was the first woman executed in Arkansas since 1845. Riggs was the fifth woman executed in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. Riggs was executed with a potassium chloride injection - the same drug she had used in the murders. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
Born: Thursday, September 2, 1971 in Lawton, United States