Pee Wee Gaskins
Mug shot of "Pee Wee" Gaskins
Background information
Birth name:	Donald Henry Parrott, Jr. The Republic of Indonesia ( (Republik Indonesia is a Country in Southeast Asia. Pop punk (also known as punk pop and other names is a Fusion genre that combines elements of Punk rock with Pop music, to varying
Alias(es):	Meanest Man in America, The Redneck Charles Manson, Junior Parrott
Born:	March 31, 1933 Florence County, South Carolina
Died:	September 6, 1991
Cause of death:	Electric chair
Penalty:	Death
Killings
Number of victims:	9 - 100?
Span of killings:	1953 through September 1982
Country:	U.S.
State(s):	South Carolina
Date apprehended:	December 1975

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Early life

Born in Manning, South Carolina, Gaskins spent most of his youth in and out of reform school, and later prison. Manning is a city in Clarendon County, South Carolina, United States. South Carolina ( is a state in the southern region ( Deep South) of the United States of America. Gaskins' small, slight build (5' 4" tall, hence his nickname) made him a target for physical and sexual abuse in prison. Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one person upon another He eventually killed a highly regarded prisoner while the man was on the toilet, transforming him into a jailhouse legend for the rest of his stay.

As a youth, he hit a woman in the head with a hatchet and left her for dead; she survived. ^[2]

Murders

In 1969, after being released from prison, Gaskins continued killing. He made a distinction between people he found while driving around the roadways of the American South: people that he killed for pleasure, and familiar people that he killed for specific reasons. The Southern United States &mdashcommonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South &mdashconstitutes a large distinctive Gaskins also had a thriving business fencing stolen cars. In law enforcement a fence is an individual who knowingly buys stolen property for later resale in a (usually legitimate market He operated his fencing business out of several properties around The Carolinas, where he murdered most of his victims. The Carolinas is a term used in the United States to refer collectively to the states of North and South Carolina. Murder is the unlawful killing of another human person with Malice aforethought, as defined in Common Law countries His other favorite hunting grounds were the coastal highways, where every six weeks, he went hunting to quell his feelings of "bothersome-ness. "

He confessed of 100 murders^[3], but law enforcement sources found it impossible to verify all of his claims. In his autobiography, Final Truth (published posthumously), Gaskins wrote that he had "a special mind" that gave him "permission to kill. An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" "

Gaskins' first victims were his niece Janice Kirby and her friend Patricia Ann Alsobrook whom he beat to death in Sumter, South Carolina in 1970. Sumter (ˈsʌmptɚ is a city in and the County seat of Sumter County, South Carolina, United States. South Carolina ( is a state in the southern region ( Deep South) of the United States of America. When the police found a piece of Alsobrook's clothing in his rented trailer, Gaskins was asked why he killed her; he responded by saying, ". . . it was over an argument about their drug abuse". He was widely known for being a pedophile and rapist^[4]

On December 4, 1975, Gaskins led police to land he owned in Prospect, where police dug up numerous bodies of Gaskins' victims. "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Gaskins killed children and at least one baby. He crushed their necks, cut their throats, stabbed, poisoned, drowned them, beat them to death with his fists, and shot them execution style. ^[4]

Imprisonment

Before 1976, Gaskins was on death row, but his sentences were commuted to life in prison when the South Carolina General Assembly's 1974 death sentence ruling was changed to meet the United States Supreme Court guidelines for the death penalty in other states. Death row is a term that refers to the section of a Prison that houses individuals awaiting execution. A pardon is the forgiveness of a crime and the penalty associated with it Life imprisonment or life incarceration is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime often for most The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the Killing of a person by judicial process as Punishment. ^[4]

In the early 1980s, Gaskins was named the "Meanest Man in America" for killing another inmate while in maximum security, a crime for which he was sentenced to death. While in prison, Gaskins was hired by Tony Cimo to kill Rudolph Tyner. Tyner was on death row for killing Bill and Myrtie Moon, Cimo's parents, with a 12-gauge shotgun in the store they owned in the Burgess community. Gaskins first attempts at killing Tyner involved sprinkling poison on his food which only made him sick. Then Gaskins rigged a device similar to a portable radio and told Tyner this would allow them to talk between cells. When Tyner followed Gaskins instructions to hold it to his ear and plug it in, it exploded and killed Tyner. ^[4] Gaskins later said, "The last thing he [Tyner] heard was me laughing. "

Gaskins was tried for the murder of Rudolph Tyner and sentenced to death.

Death

Gaskins was executed on September 6, 1991 at 1:10 a. Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. m. He was the fourth person to die in the electric chair after the death penalty was reinstated in South Carolina in 1977. Execution by electrocution (usually referred to after its method of implementation as the Electric Chair) is an execution method originating in the United States in which the ^[4]

References

1. ^ Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins (1933 - 1991) - Find A Grave Memorial
2. ^ Rhyne, Nancy (1990). More Murder in the Carolinas. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 154. ISBN 0-89587-075-4.
3. ^ Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins - Part 3
4. ^ ^{a b c d e} Shuler, Rita. 2006. Carolina Crimes: Case Files of a Forensic Photographer. The History Press: Charleston, SC.

External links

• Donald Henry Gaskins, United States Court of Appeals
• Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins
• US Executions since 1976