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{{Infobox person
| name = Lee Standifer
| image = Lee Standifer.png
| caption = Lee Standifer, pictured in her 1976 high school yearbook
| birth_name = Lee Standifer
| birth_date = {{birth date|1957|5|22}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1981|5|20|1957|5|22}}
| death_place = [[Knoxville, Tennessee]], U.S.
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On May 20, 1981, in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]], 23-year-old '''Lee Standifer''' (May 22, 1957 – May 20, 1981), who was two days short of her 24th birthday, was murdered by her boyfriend '''David Earl Miller''' (July 16, 1957 – December 6, 2018), who dragged her into the woods and killed her by beating and stabbing. Standifer's body was found the day after her death, and Miller was charged with murdering her after he was arrested in [[Ohio]] on May 29, 1981.<ref>{{cite news|title=What to know about the Dec. 6 execution of Tennessee death row inmate David Earl Miller |date=November 27, 2018 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2018/11/27/tennessee-execution-david-earl-miller-electric-chair-dec-6/2117169002/ }}</ref>
Miller was subsequently convicted of the murder, and [[Capital punishment in Tennessee|sentenced to death]] twice in 1982 and 1987 respectively – the first death sentence, which was imposed in 1982, was overturned in 1984 before it was reinstated in 1987. Miller spent about 36 years on [[death row]] before he was executed via the [[electric chair]], and he was the longest-serving death row inmate in Tennessee at the time of his execution on December 6, 2018.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee executes convicted murderer by electric chair |date=December 6, 2018 |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/tennessee-executes-convicted-murderer-by-electric-chair-idUSKBN1O51EN/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee carries out second electrocution of death row inmate of year |date=December 6, 2018 |work=UPI |url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/12/06/Tennessee-carries-out-second-electrocution-of-death-row-inmate-of-year/3171544109438/}}</ref>
==Murder==
On May 20, 1981, in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]], a 23-year-old mentally handicapped woman was murdered while on a date with her killer.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee executes longest serving Death Row inmate David Earl Miller |date=December 7, 2018 |work=The Mirror |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/breaking-tennessee-executes-longest-serving-13698541 }}</ref>
Prior to her murder, 23-year-old Lee Standifer, who suffered from
At the house itself, Miller, for unknown
After the clean-up, the house's owner, Rev. Benjamin Calvin Thomas, returned home and saw Miller and some of the bloodstains in his house, and probed him on what happened. After Miller explained he cleaned the house and lied that the bloodstains came from a nosebleed due to a fight, Thomas asked him to move out the next day, and Miller, who agreed to do so, was given a ride the next day by Thomas. Miller subsequently left Thomas's vehicle and fled Tennessee by hitchhiking, and Thomas, upon his return to home after giving Miller a ride, discovered the body of Standifer
A police report was immediately lodged by Thomas right after he found the corpse, and the police classified the death of Standifer as murder. A forensic pathologist found that Standifer sustained two severe head wounds: one on the right side of the forehead and another above the left eye, each about three inches long and half an inch wide, and these injuries led to a skull fracture and a [[subarachnoid hematoma]]. There were several stab wounds: one of them had completely penetrated the neck and shattered the jawbone; another five were located on the chest and a sixth to the stomach; a seventh was inflicted on the floor of the mouth. one of the stab wounds was measured eight to nine inches deep and penetrated the heart and [[aorta]]. Another wound also went through both the rib cage and the fifth rib, while a third passed through the center of the chest. There were two more stab wounds on the back; one penetrated a rib, while the other struck the left shoulder blade without going deeper than an inch.<ref name="State v. Miller (1984)"/>
According to the pathologist, it was likely that a poker was used to inflict the head injuries, while a bowie knife was the most likely murder weapon to cause a majority of the stab wounds, and a huge amount of force was exerted to cause these wounds. Multiple bruises were also found on the upper thighs, and some of the knife wounds were post-mortem injuries, and the body showed signs of being dragged from the house to the tree. The pathologist also discovered traces of [[spermatozoa]] in the victim's vagina, suggesting that Miller had possibly raped Standifer before she died.<ref name="State v. Miller (1984)"/>
Nine days after the murder, on May 29, 1981, Miller was arrested in [[Columbus, Ohio]] while he was attempting to pay a bar tab with a counterfeit $10. After being arrested, he confessed to the Ohio authorities about beating Standifer to death while under the influence of drugs. Subsequently, he was handed over to the Tennessee state police to face charges for the killing of Standifer.<ref name="State v. Miller (1984)"/><ref name="A simmering rage">{{cite news|title='A simmering rage': David Earl Miller's path to Tennessee's electric chair |date=December 3, 2018 |work=Knoxville News Sentinel |url=https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2018/12/03/david-earl-miller-execution-lee-standifer-murder-knoxville-1981/2153239002/ }}</ref>
==Trial of David Earl Miller==
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| name = David Earl Miller
| image = David Earl Miller.png
| caption = Mugshot of David Earl Miller
| birth_date = {{birth date|1957|7|16}}
| birth_place = [[Toledo, Ohio]], U.S.
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Born on July 16, 1957 at [[Toledo, Ohio]], David Earl Miller was born to a mother who was pregnant with him due to a one-night stand and an unknown father. Miller's mother continued drinking despite her pregnancy, and she suffered from brain damage in her later life due to exposure to toxic fumes while she worked at a plastics plant. Miller's mother remarried when her son was ten months old, but Miller's stepfather was an alcoholic who was physically violent towards Miller. Several instances of abuse underwent by Miller include regular beatings with boards, being slammed into walls and being dragged around the house by the hair.▼
▲Born on July 16, 1957,
According to Miller, he was being sexually abused by a female cousin when he was five, and two other occasions – once by a friend of his grandfather's at age 12 and another by his drunken mother at age 15, but the account of these alleged sexual assaults were disputed by his family. At the age of six, Miller tried to hang himself and by the age of ten, he picked up negative habits like underage drinking, use of marijuana and huffing gasoline daily. Miller was 13 when he was first sent to a state reform school, where he and the other boys often faced regular whippings by the school counselors with rubber hoses and covered up acts of sexual molestation within the school.▼
▲According to Miller, he was
In 1974, when Miller turned 17, he joined the [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] and he also underwent boot camp. However, Miller deserted after he received word that he would not be dispatched to Vietnam to fight the [[Vietnam War]]. Miller returned to Ohio and began a relationship with a woman, but the couple broke off while the woman was still pregnant with Miller's daughter, who was subsequently raised by her mother and another man she married after she separated from Miller.▼
▲In 1974, when Miller turned 17, he joined the [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] and
After this, Miller would often move between Texas and Ohio, and he worked odd jobs as a welder and bartender. He eventually became a drifter and he was hitchhiking through east Tennessee when he encountered Rev. Benjamin Calvin Thomas, an ordained minister who invited Miller to live with him, and thus Miller settled in Tennessee; the house of Thomas was the same place where Miller murdered Lee Standifer. Prior to the murder of Standifer in 1981, Miller was arrested twice for separate rape cases but no charges were filed against him by his victims out of fear for Miller, who was let off each time after being apprehended.▼
▲After this, Miller would often move between Texas and Ohio, and he worked odd jobs as a welder and bartender. He eventually became a drifter and
===Murder charge and trial proceedings===
After his arrest in 1981, Miller was charged with [[Murder in United States law|first-degree murder]] for the death of Standifer. The offence itself carries the [[Capital punishment in Tennessee|death penalty under Tennessee state law]].<ref name="Miller v. Colson">''Miller v. Colson'' [2012], [[United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit|6th Circuit Court of Appeals]] (United States).</ref>
Miller was indicted by a [[Knox County, Tennessee|Knox County]] jury on a single murder charge on August 3, 1981, and on October 19, 1981, a competency hearing was scheduled for Miller to determine if he was fit to stand trial, and he was examined by Dr George Gee, a psychiatrist at the Helen Ross McNabb Mental Health Center. It was concluded in November 1981 that Miller was fit to be tried for the murder of Standifer, and although the defence sought a second medical opinion to dispute Dr Gee's findings, this request was denied.<ref name="Miller v. Colson"/>
Miller was formally put on trial in March 1982. The defence sought to argue that Miller was insane and
On March 17, 1982, 24-year-old David Earl Miller was sentenced to death for the murder of Lee Standifer.<ref name="Miller v. Colson"/>
==Re-sentencing in 1987 and appeals==
On May 29, 1984, the [[Tennessee Supreme Court]] heard David Miller's direct appeal against the trial verdict. Although the court upheld the murder conviction of Miller, the judges overturned the death sentence and ordered a re-sentencing trial for Miller based on the fact that his prior arrest for two rape cases (where no indictments were made) was improperly introduced as evidence during his original punishment phase of the trial.<ref name="State v. Miller (1984)"/>
In February 1987, a second trial by jury in relation to Miller's re-sentencing commenced, and at its conclusion, Miller was once again sentenced to death, after the jury found the murder of Lee Standifer to be "especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel". An appeal was filed to the Tennessee Supreme Court, but it was rejected on April 24, 1989.<ref>''State v. Miller'' [1989], [[Tennessee Supreme Court]] (United States).</ref>
On November 19, 1999, the [[Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals]] rejected Miller's appeal.<ref>''David Earl Miller vs. State'' [1989], [[Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals]] (United States).</ref>
On August 29, 2001, Miller's follow-up appeal was turned down by the Tennessee Supreme Court.<ref>''Miller vs. State'' [2001], [[Tennessee Supreme Court]] (United States).</ref>
On September 13, 2012, the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit|6th Circuit Court of Appeals]] dismissed another appeal from Miller.<ref name="Miller v. Colson"/>
==Execution of Miller==
===Death warrant, lawsuit and selection of execution method===
By 2018, David Miller had exhausted all avenues of appeal against the death penalty. It was around November 2018, when Miller received notification of his execution date, which was scheduled on December 6, 2018. Miller was set to be the third death row convict in Tennessee to face execution in 2018.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee to execute man on death row for 36 years |date=December 6, 2018 |work=[[The Straits Times]] |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/tennessee-to-execute-man-on-death-row-for-36-years }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Death Row Inmates Ask For Firing Squad After Electric Chair Execution |date=November 5, 2018 |work=[[CBS News]] |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/death-row-firing-squads/ }}</ref>
After the issuance of his death warrant, Miller and three other death row prisoners – [[Nicholas Todd Sutton]], [[Terry Lynn King]] and [[Stephen Michael West]] – filed a lawsuit against the state on November 5, 2018, seeking to be [[Execution by firing squad|executed by firing squad]] instead of [[lethal injection]], which was the state's primary method of execution, and stated that the current lethal injection protocols in Tennessee could lead to prolonged and torturous deaths in light of the recent botched execution of [[Billy Ray Irick]] in Tennessee.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee death row inmates ask to have firing squad used |date=November 5, 2018 |work=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://apnews.com/general-news-30e5209261324a7fbe59eb61d257c6d1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Four Tennessee death row inmates ask for execution by firing squad |date=November 5, 2018 |work=[[The
Under Tennessee state law, for inmates who were given the death penalty before 1999, they were allowed to choose between two execution methods: lethal injection or electrocution (execution by the [[electric chair]]). Miller was eligible to make the choice since his death sentence was first imposed in 1982.<ref>{{cite news|title=Electrocution or lethal injection? Tennessee's David Earl Miller to decide how he wants to die |date=November 20, 2018 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/11/20/tennessee-execution-david-earl-miller-electric-chair-injection/2064971002/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee death row inmate given five days to decide how he wants to be executed |date=November 21, 2018 |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tennessee-death-row-inmate-lethal-injection-electric-chair-decision-david-earl-miller-a8644226.html }}</ref>
On November 27, 2018, Miller chose to be executed by the electric chair.<ref>{{cite news|title=Death row inmate David Earl Miller picks the electric chair for Dec. 6 execution |date=November 26, 2018 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2018/11/26/tennessee-execution-david-miller-electric-chair/2117144002/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee death row inmate chooses electrocution over injection |date=November 26, 2018 |work=UPI |url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/11/26/Tennessee-death-row-inmate-chooses-electrocution-over-injection/1131543276731/ }}</ref> He was the second person in Tennessee to select this execution method, after convicted murderer [[Edmund Zagorski]], who was found guilty of a 1983 double murder and executed by electrocution on November 1, 2018.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee death row inmate wants electric chair as 'lesser of two evils' |date=October 9, 2018 |work=[[NBC News]] |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-death-row-inmate-wants-electric-chair-lesser-two-evils-n918096 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Second Tennessee prisoner on death row chooses electric chair for execution |date=November 27, 2018 |work=[[NBC News]] |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-injection/second-tennessee-prisoner-death-row-chooses-electric-chair-execution-n940341 }}</ref>
===Final appeals and execution===
As a final recourse to escape the death penalty, Miller petitioned to the [[Governor of Tennessee|state governor]] [[Bill Haslam]] for clemency, and if successful, his death sentence could be [[Commutation (law)|commuted]] to [[life imprisonment]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Days from execution, death row inmate David Earl Miller asks Gov. Bill Haslam for mercy |date=December 5, 2018 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2018/12/05/tennessee-execution-david-earl-miller-haslam-clemency/2202535002/ }}</ref> On the date of Miller's scheduled execution, Haslam announced that he would not grant clemency to Miller.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Latest: Tennessee inmate's last words barely heard |date=December 6, 2018 |work=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://apnews.com/general-news-domestic-news-domestic-news-ea3a5333b08b40fc868e40cabf79c13a }}</ref> Additionally, Miller also filed final court appeals all the way to the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] for a [[stay of execution]], but the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit|6th Circuit Court of Appeals]] and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to postpone Miller's scheduled execution on December 4 and December 6, 2018, respectively.<ref>{{cite news|title=Appeals court denies attempt to delay David Earl Miller's execution |date=December 3, 2018 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2018/12/03/david-earl-miller-appeals-court-execution-delay/2195412002/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=U.S. Supreme Court denies stay shortly before David Earl Miller's execution |date=December 6, 2018 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2018/12/06/david-earl-miller-execution-gov-bill-haslam-not-intervene/2227735002/ }}</ref>
On December 4, 2018, two days before his impending execution, Miller was moved to another cell closer to the electrocution execution chamber and placed on "death watch", a 72-hour time period where a death row inmate was under 24/7 surveillance and heightened security measures.<ref>{{cite news|title=David Earl Miller moved to death watch as his execution approaches |date=December 4, 2018 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2018/12/04/tennessee-execution-david-earl-miller-moved-death-watch/2203365002/ }}</ref>
On December 6, 2018, 61-year-old David Earl Miller was put to death by the electric chair at the [[Riverbend Maximum Security Institution]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee executes 2nd inmate in 2 months using electric chair |date=December 6, 2018 |work=[[CNN]] |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/06/us/tennessee-second-electric-chair-execution/index.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee executes longest serving death row inmate using electric chair after court battle |date=December 6, 2018 |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/david-earl-miller-execution-tennessee-electric-chair-death-row-nashville-lee-standifer-a8671756.html }}</ref> For his [[Last meal|final meal]], Miller ordered fried chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuits and coffee.<ref>{{cite news|title=Death-row inmate chooses fried chicken, awaits court rulings |date=December 5, 2018 |work=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://apnews.com/ec109b675b10458f87d0cd983a77919e }}</ref> Miller's last words before his execution were, "Beats being on death row."<ref>{{cite news|title=David Earl Miller execution: Death row inmate's last words before electrocution |date=December 6, 2018 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/12/06/david-earl-miller-execution-last-words-tennessee-electric-chair-death-penalty/2158541002/ }}</ref> Nine minutes after the electric chair was first activated, Miller was pronounced dead at 7:25pm.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee executes David Earl Miller by electric chair |date=December 6, 2018 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/12/06/david-earl-miller-execution-electric-chair-tennessee/2158239002/ }}</ref> None of the family members of Standifer or Miller were present to witness the execution.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee inmate second to be executed in electric chair in two months |date=December 6, 2018 |work=[[NBC News]] |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-inmate-second-be-executed-electric-chair-two-months-n945256 }}</ref>
At the time of his execution, Miller, who had spent 36 years in prison, was the longest-serving death row inmate in Tennessee. He also became the third condemned criminal in Tennessee to be executed via the electric chair since 1960.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee electrocutes inmate David Earl Miller for 1981 slaying of mentally disabled woman |date=December 6, 2018 |work=[[CBS News]] |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-earl-miller-electrocuted-for-murder-of-lee-standifer-tennessee-execution-today-2018-12-06/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Death row prisoner David Miller's final words |date=December 7, 2018 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/death-row-prisoner-david-millers-final-words-revealed/76NKYOFWKYBPEOROTCJUPKANC4/ }}</ref> It was noted that in recent years, due to increasing numbers of botched lethal injection executions, there were many criminals on death row across the U.S., including Miller, who chose to die by electrocution or other execution methods, and Miller was among the most high-profile cases of people who elected to be put to death by other methods rather than lethal injection.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee inmate chooses electric chair over lethal injection |date=December 7, 2018 |work=[[BBC]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46465038 }}</ref> Miller's 36-year stay on death row also raised concerns about the issues within Tennessee's legal process that caused his death sentence to be carried out after more than three decades.<ref>{{cite news|title=Why Tennessee took more than 30 years to set executions for death row inmates |date=November 29, 2018 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2018/11/29/execution-tennessee-death-row-delay-legal-challenge/2125500002/ }}</ref> Six more executions were scheduled in Tennessee after Miller's – four in 2019 and two in 2020.<ref>{{cite news|title=David Earl Miller spent 36 years on death row. The day he died, he said his last words twice. |date=December 7, 2018 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/12/07/david-earl-miller-execution-tennessee-electric-chair/2158566002/ }}</ref> Across the U.S., a total of 25 inmates (including Miller) were executed during the year 2018.<ref>{{cite news|title=Death Row 2018: Who was executed, their brutal crimes and their last meals |date=December 28, 2018 |work=The Mirror |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/death-row-2018-who-executed-13626448 }}</ref>
===Reactions===
In response to the scheduled execution of her daughter's murderer, Lee Standifer's mother Helen stated that it was not necessary for her to witness the execution of Miller, because she was neither vengeful nor did she feel that her attendance could help her daughter, and she just wanted it to be over soon. Helen described Standifer as a "bubbly, happy character" who loved teasing her sister during Christmas and active in sports during most of her schooling years at Colorado, where she used to live before moving to Tennessee, and even won a gold medal in backstroke during a swimming competition. Helen stated that the loss of her daughter was still deeply felt even after 37 years since she died, and remembered her daughter as someone who loved her job and full of self-confidence in spite of her mental issues.<ref>{{cite news|title=Murder victim's mother remembers 'bubbly, happy character' |date=November 28, 2018 |work=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://apnews.com/general-news-caff3be913a6466cae4f4048787f7537 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Tennessee executes man on death row for 36 years |date=December 7, 2018 |work=The New Straits Times |url=https://www.nst.com.my/world/2018/12/438185/tennessee-executes-man-death-row-36-years }}</ref>
Jim Winston, the lead detective formerly in charge of investigating Standifer's murder, recounted the case during the final week of Miller's execution, and he stated that he had never forgotten about the gruesome nature of the murder even after more than three decades since it occurred. Winston stated that the brutality of the crime was so much so that even the court could not allow the photos of the crime scene to be publicly presented in court and he himself found it hard to deliver the news to Standifer's family or testify about the killing. Winston stated that he still kept an article about the murder, and was still proud of his efforts of bring Miller to justice, from which the case could truly find closure once Miller's death sentence was carried out.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lead Detective remembers heinous crime and innocent victim ahead of Miller execution|date=December 3, 2018 |work=WATE |url=https://www.wate.com/news/local-news/lead-detective-remembers-heinous-crime-and-innocent-victim-ahead-of-miller-execution/1637697014/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title='A life for a life,' says man who investigated 1981 murder of Knoxville woman |date=December 6, 2018 |work=WVLT |url=https://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/Investigator-remembers-case-ahead-of-execution--502003521.html }}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Capital punishment in Tennessee]]
* [[List of kidnappings: 1980–1989|List of kidnappings]]
* [[List of people executed in Tennessee]]
* [[List of people executed in the United States in 2018]]
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{{s-aft|after=Alvin Braziel Jr. – [[Capital punishment in Texas|Texas]]|after2=<div style="font-weight: normal">December 11, 2018</div>}}
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