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Joseph
Carmen D'AMATO
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Insurance
fraud scheme
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: February-March 1981
Date of birth: 1950
Victims profile: John Amato
/ Anthony Bonaventura,
27 / A 79 year old man / Anthony Patrone
Method of murder:
Shooting
Location: Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Status: Sentenced to death on July 25, 1984
Joseph Carmen D'Amato, 54, is
scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on June 16, 2005, for the
1981 shooting death of Anthony Patrone.
Authorities said D'Amato feared
Patrone intended to betray him in an insurance fraud scheme. D'Amato is
an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Greene.
On Feb. 9, 1983, Joseph D'Amato was
convicted of one count of 1st-degree murder and sentenced to die for
shooting Anthony Patrone on March 19, 1981 in Philadelphia, PA. Anthony
was shot in the head, hand and chest. D'Amato was at large for 9 months
after Anthony's murder. D'Amato was formally sentenced to die on July
25, 1984. The state Supreme Court upheld the judgment on May 22, 1987
and petitions for post-conviction relief have been pending for over 10
years.
D'Amato also killed three other people;
John Amato who was shot to death in February of 1981, Anthony
Bonaventura, 27, who was shot in the head in March 1981 and a 79 year
old man. D'Amato received additional sentences of Life and 10-20 years
in two of the cases and charges were never prosecuted in the last one.
D'Amato scheduled execution
Gov. Ed Rendell on
Thursday signed an execution warrant for a Philadelphia man convicted of
murder in 1983. Joseph Carmen D'Amato, 54, is scheduled to be
executed by lethal injection on June 16 2005 for the 1981 shooting death
of Anthony Patrone.
Authorities said
D'Amato feared Patrone intended to betray him in an insurance fraud
scheme. D'Amato is an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at
Greene.
On Feb. 9, 1983, Joseph
D'Amato was convicted of one count of 1st-degree murder and sentenced to
die for shooting Anthony Patrone on March 19, 1981 in Philadelphia, PA.
Anthony was shot in the head, hand and chest. D'Amato was at large for 9
months after Anthony's murder.
D'Amato was formally
sentenced to die on July 25, 1984. The state Supreme Court upheld the
judgment on May 22, 1987 and petitions for post-conviction relief have
been pending for over 10 years.
D'Amato also killed
three other people; John Amato who was shot to death in February of
1981, Anthony Bonaventura, 27, who was shot in the head in March 1981
and a 79 year old man.
D'Amato received
additional sentences of Life and 10-20 years in two of the cases and
charges were never prosecuted in the last one.
