Shaka Sankofa
Shaka Sankofa | |
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| Born | Gary Lee Graham September 5, 1963 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | June 22, 2000 (aged 36) Huntsville Unit, Texas, U.S. |
| Criminal status | Executed by lethal injection |
| Children | 2 |
| Convictions | Capital murder Aggravated robbery (10 counts) |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
Shaka Sankofa (born Gary Lee Graham; September 5, 1963 – June 22, 2000) was a Texas death-row inmate who was sentenced to death at the age of 17 for the murder of 53-year-old Bobby Grant Lambert during a deadly 1981 crime spree in Houston, Texas, that also included at least 10 armed robberies and a rape.
Sankofa was scheduled to be executed five times: once in 1987, three times in 1993 (April, in which Lambert's widow Loretta appealed to Governor Ann Richards to spare Sankofa's life; May and August), and once on January 11, 1999; each time he was given a stay of execution before it was later lifted.
He was executed by lethal injection on June 22, 2000, in Huntsville, Texas.