May 21, 1930 - Richard Snell
Snell's two killings in Arkansas were driven by explicit racial and antisemitic targeting — one victim murdered under the false belief that he was Jewish, the other killed because of his race. His case intersects with a broader network of violent white supremacist activity in 1980s America, and his execution date — April 19, 1995 — coincided with the Oklahoma City bombing, a connection that later drew scrutiny given his ties to extremist circles.
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Richard Wayne Snell (May 21, 1930 – April 19, 1995) was an American white supremacist convicted of killing a pawn shop owner whom he mistook for a Jew and a black police officer in Arkansas on November 3, 1983, and June 30, 1984, respectively. Snell was sentenced to death for one of the murders and executed by lethal injection in 1995.
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