
Historical records matching Faye Della Copeland
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About Faye Della Copeland
Ray Copeland (December 30, 1914 – October 19, 1993) and Faye Della Wilson Copeland (August 4, 1921 – December 23, 2003) became, at the ages of 76 and 69 respectively, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States. They were convicted of killing five drifters at their farm in Missouri. When her sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1999, Faye Copeland was the oldest woman on death row.
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On August 10, 2002, Faye Copeland suffered a stroke, which left her partially paralyzed and unable to speak. Weeks later, in September 2002, Governor Holden authorized a medical parole for Faye, fulfilling her one wish that she not die in prison. She was paroled to a nursing home in her hometown. The following year, on December 30, 2003, 82-year-old Faye Della Copeland died at the Morningside Center nursing home in Chillicothe, Missouri, from what Livingston County coroner Scott Lindley described as natural causes (disease). She left behind five children, seventeen grandchildren, and (at last count) twenty-five great-grandchildren.
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Ashes scattered in Mooresville
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Faye Della Copeland's Timeline
1921 |
August 4, 1921
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Harrison, Boone County, Arkansas, United States
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1943 |
June 4, 1943
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Arkansas, United States
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1947 |
October 23, 1947
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Harrison, Boone County, Arkansas, United States
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2003 |
December 23, 2003
Age 82
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Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri, United States
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December 28, 2003
Age 82
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Forest Grove Cemetery, Lamar, Barton County, Missouri, United States
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