1917 - 2016
Moreese Bickham American Activist
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| First Name |
Moreese
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| Last Name |
Bickham
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1916
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| Died |
2nd April, 2016
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| Place of Death |
Alameda, California
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Employee of the City of Mandeville, LA
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| Occupation |
Activist
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Moreese Bickham (June 6, 1917 – April 2, 2016) was a resident of Mandeville, Louisiana who was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to death for the July 12, 1958 killing of a sheriff's deputy, reportedly a local Klan leader. In 1974, Bickham's death sentence was converted to life without parole after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Furman v. Georgia, which invalidated death penalty convictions in certain circumstances. In April, 1995, amid a detailed legal challenge to Bickham's 1958 conviction, the Governor of Louisiana consented to commute Bickham's sentence to 75 years. Several months later, Bickham's attorney won a full release, and Bickham left Angola State Penitentiary in January, 1996, after 37 1/2 years in prison. Bickham lived the rest of his life in California, and died in hospice care in Alameda, California after a short illness, at the age of 98.
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