20 Facts About Nicholas Ingram

Nicholas Lee Ingram was a dual British and American national, executed for murder in 1995 at the age of 31 by the US state of Georgia, using the electric chair.

Nicholas Ingram was born in Britain, but had an American father.

On June 3,1983,19-year-old Nicholas Ingram sold car wheels and a ring at a pawn shop while accompanied by a friend.

At approximately 6:30 pm, Nicholas Ingram's friend drove him to a house in Marietta, Georgia, in Cobb County.

Nicholas Ingram told his friend to wait in the car; before leaving, Nicholas Ingram stated that he intended to pistol-whip the people in the house, although he was not sure he would be able to kill them.

Plummer decided not to wait for Nicholas Ingram and drove home instead.

Nicholas Ingram then led the couple outside and into the woods surrounding their home.

Nicholas Ingram tied their hands behind them and bound them to a tree using rope and wire.

Nicholas Ingram then shot them both in the head at point-blank range.

Nicholas Ingram somehow made his way to California, where he stole another car.

Nicholas Ingram then told police that he was wanted for two murders in Georgia; Nebraska authorities contacted Georgia authorities afterwards and extradited Nicholas Ingram to Georgia for questioning there.

Nicholas Ingram then gave a partial confession to the murders, stating that he remembered his friend driving him to the Sawyers' residence, finding his friend gone, and taking a pickup truck, but that he woke up the next morning in a parking lot in Alabama; he insisted that he had blacked out from drinking too much and that he could not remember a robbery or murder.

In seeking to halt the execution, Nicholas Ingram's lawyers argued that they had only recently learned that their client had been heavily drugged and medicated by prison officials before his 1983 trial and therefore was not aware enough of the proceedings to show a contrition that might have influenced jurors not to recommend the death penalty.

Mrs Nicholas Ingram appealed for the intervention of Prime Minister John Major in a letter she delivered to him while he was visiting Washington.

Nicholas Ingram certainly did not intend for me to live.

Nicholas Ingram's head was already shaved and he had worn a baseball cap to spare his parents the traumatic sight of his shaved head.

Nicholas Ingram's execution took place at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson, Georgia.

Witnesses said Nicholas Ingram glared at them while guards strapped him into the electric chair.

When he was asked whether he wished to have a final prayer, some sources suggested Nicholas Ingram replied, "Let's get on with it".

Nicholas Ingram was pronounced dead at 9:15 pm according to Vicki Gavalas, the prison department spokeswoman for the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center where the execution took place.