1993 Iowa murders

Angela Jane Johnson (born January 17, 1964)[1] is an American felon. In 1993, she helped Dustin Lee Honken (March 22, 1968 – July 17, 2020)[2] in the murders of five people in Iowa.

The victims were related to a drug trial against Honken. Honken was involved in the creation and selling of methamphetamine and one of his dealers was set to testify against him, and so Honken and Johnson murdered him along with his girlfriend and her two daughters (age 6 and 10).[3] A few months later, the fifth victim, also a former dealer, was murdered.[3]

Dustin Honken was sentenced to death and executed on July 17, 2020,[4] the first person from Iowa to be executed since 1963.[3]

Angela Johnson was also sentenced to death, the first woman sentenced to death by a United States federal jury since the 1950s, but the sentence was overturned in 2012[5] and she was re-sentenced to life without parole in 2014.

References

  1. ↑ Hytrek, Nick. "Judge vacates Angela Johnson's death sentence ." Globe Gazette. March 23, 2012. Retrieved on July 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Dustin Lee Honken: US government executes 3rd federal inmate this week". CNN. 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Press, The Associated (2020-07-16). "Iowa Drug Kingpin Who Killed 5 People in 1993 to Be Executed". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
  4. ↑ Sahouri, Andrea (June 15, 2020). "July execution scheduled for Iowa native Dustin Lee Honken, convicted in 2004 of murdering 5". Iowa City Press-Citizen. Des Moines Register. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Infamous Iowa murderer Dustin Honken to be executed in 2020". Des Moines Register. Associated Press. July 25, 2019. Retrieved July 26, 2019.