Moreese Bickham, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMoreese Bickham
American murderer
Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1917
Date of Death: 02-Apr-2016
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Moreese Bickham
- Moreese Bickham (June 6, 1917 – April 2, 2016) was a resident of Mandeville, Louisiana who was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to death for the July 12, 1958 killing of a sheriff's deputy, reportedly a local Klan leader.
- In 1974, Bickham's death sentence was converted to life without parole after the U.S.
- Supreme Court's decision in Furman v.
- Georgia, which invalidated death penalty convictions in certain circumstances.
- In April, 1995, after a lengthy legal battle over his guilt or innocence in the 1958 case, the Governor of Louisiana agreed to commute Bickham's sentence to 75 years.
- Then, in January 1996, Bickham's attorney won a full release, and Bickham left Angola State Penitentiary after 37 1/2 years in prison.
- Bickham lived the rest of his life in California, and died in a nursing home in Alameda, California after a short illness, at the age of 98.
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