USA (Texas): Death penalty / Legal concern: Ryan Heath Dickson (m)

USA (Texas): Death penalty / Legal concern: Ryan Heath Dickson (m)

Index Number: AMR 51/073/2007
Date Published: 27 August 2007
Categories: Americas, USA

Ryan Dickson, white, aged 30, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 26 April. Ryan Dickson, then aged 18, his younger brother Dane Dickson, Freddie Medina and Jeremy Brown decided to steal beer from a grocery store run by Marie and Carmelo Surace. She was shot and killed during the robbery on 27 November 1994 and her husband died later from his injuries. Ryan Dickson was tried and sentenced to death in 1997 for the murder of Carmelo Surace.