On this day: May 27

  1. 1984
    Victim Michelle Denise Simms · Bobby Joe Long
  2. 1994
    Prison Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla · Charles Rodman Campbell

    Campbell spent more than a decade on death row in Walla Walla. He refused to choose a method of execution and was hanged by default at 12:08 a.m. on May 27, 1994, Washington's last hanging.

  3. 2003
    Arrest Arrest in southwest Atlanta · Derrick Todd Lee

    After a five-day manhunt, Lee was arrested in the Polar Rock neighborhood of Atlanta. He waived extradition and was returned to Baton Rouge.