Gary Leon Brown, 44, was executed April 24, 2003 by lethal injection at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama for the May 26, 1986 murder of Jack David McGraw, 59.
Brown and the other men went to McGraw's home on Memorial Day to drink with him with the plan that he would pass out and they could rob his home. But McGraw said he had to work the next day and couldn't party with them. The men then attacked him outside his trailer and dragged him back inside. Brown struck the first blows, and repeatedly stabbed McGraw with a pocketknife as Bankhead stood over him with a skillet. McGraw was stabbed in the back 59 times, his throat and neck were slashed 16 times and his face showed three knife wounds. After the slaying, the trio loaded some of his household appliances into their car and took $67. Neighborhood children found his body. Brown admitted his participation in the murder. Accomplice Archie Bankhead is now serving life without parole. Also convicted in the murder was James Lynn Bynum, who was paroled from a life sentence in 1997.
Gary Leon Brown, 44, was executed April 24, 2003 by lethal injection at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama for the May 26, 1986 murder of Jack David McGraw, 59.
Brown and the other men went to McGraw's home on Memorial Day to drink with him with the plan that he would pass out and they could rob his home. But McGraw said he had to work the next day and couldn't party with them. The men then attacked him outside his trailer and dragged him back inside. Brown struck the first blows, and repeatedly stabbed McGraw with a pocketknife as Bankhead stood over him with a skillet. McGraw was stabbed in the back 59 times, his throat and neck were slashed 16 times and his face showed three knife wounds. After the slaying, the trio loaded some of his household appliances into their car and took $67. Neighborhood children found his body. Brown admitted his participation in the murder. Accomplice Archie Bankhead is now serving life without parole. Also convicted in the murder was James Lynn Bynum, who was paroled from a life sentence in 1997.
Bio by: Art Wells
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