Legal Opinion
Lawrie v. State
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided July 8, 1994No. 243, 282, 1993PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VEASEY, CMef Justice:
In tMs case we review the sentences of death imposed on July 8,1993, by the Superi- or Court on David J. Lawrie (“Lawrie”) for the first degree felony murders of Fawn and Tabitha Lawrie, two of the three children of Lawrie and Lawrie’s wife, Michelle Lawrie (“Michelle”), and a four-year-old neighborhood boy, Charles Humbertson. 1
Lawrie deliberately set fire to the house where the victims and a survivor of the fire (Lisa Humbertson, another neighborhood child) were staying. He was charged with several counts of murder in the first degree: the mtentional murder of Michelle,…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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- Tison v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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3Cited by41 opinions
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