Melvin Turner California

Melvin Turner is an inmate on death row in the state of

California..

Crime

While on parole, Turner and an accomplice who worked as an airport security guard abducted and executed a surgeon, Dr. Joseph Hill and a school teacher, Joella Champion to steal their car. His first conviction by an all-white jury was overturned but he was condemned again on retrial.

On the night of July 11, 1979, defendant drove codefendant Teague Hampton Scott to the Torrance Airport, where defendant had worked as a security guard. While at the airport, defendant followed a 1979 yellow Mazda RX7 that Scott wanted to steal. The vehicle stopped outside a hangar. When the victims, Dr. George S. Hill, Jr., a surgeon, and Ms. Joella Champion, a schoolteacher, got out of the Mazda and entered the hangar, defendant and Scott got out of their car and followed them. A robbery ensued, during which the victims' jewelry was taken at gunpoint. The victims were then bound hand and foot, gagged, and forced to sit against the wall of the hangar. Each victim was shot in the head once at close range by a .38-caliber gun. Death was immediate.

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Melvin Turner B78955

San Quentin State Prison Death Row

San Quentin, CA 94974

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