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Allen R. HOLMAN Sr.
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics:
Parricide
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder:
July 28,
1997
Date of arrest:
Same day (suicide attempt)
Date of birth:
March 29,
1959
Victim profile: Linda
Holman
(his wife)
Method of murder:
Shootingwith a pump-action shotgun
Location:
Wake County,
North Carolina,
USA
Status: Sentenced to death on April 7, 1998
Chronology of Events
02/13/2007
- Execution date set for Allen R. Holman, Sr.
Correction Secretary Theodis Beck has set March 9, 2007,
as the execution date for inmate Allen R. Holman, Sr. The execution is
scheduled for 2 a.m. at Central Prison in Raleigh.
Holman,
47, was sentenced to death April 7, 1998, in Wake County Superior Court
for the first-degree murder of Linda Holman.
On
August 18, 2005, the North Carolina Supreme Court affirmed Holman’s
conviction and sentence of death.
Holman
declined further appeals efforts and requested that an execution date be
set.
On December 14, 2006, a federal judge
ruled Holman was mentally competent to withdraw his appeals.
12/14/2006 - A federal
judge ruled Holman was mentally competent to withdraw his appeals.
Holman declined further appeals efforts and requested that an execution
date be set.
08/18/2005 - The North
Carolina Supreme Court affirmed Holman's conviction and sentence of
death.
04/1998 - Holman
is sentenced to death in Wake County Superior Court for the first-degree
murder of Linda Holman.
Birth Date - 03/29/1959
Offense Date - 07/28/1997
Allen R. Holman, Sr. was
sentenced to death for the murder of his wife in 1997. In July 1997,
Holman shot Linda Holman to death in the parking lot of a convenience
store.
The couple had been married for 7
years. Holman, a former grocery store bagger, pled guilty to the murder.
Linda Holman placed a call to 911
in the early-morning hours as her husband chased her in her car at
speeds that sometimes exceed 85 mph. Linda said, "Help me! My husband is
trying to kill me!" The phone call lasted for 5 minutes, then Linda
Holman reached a food store and an Apex police officer began chasing
Holman.
Holman was able to evade the
officer and returned to the store, pulled up next to his wife's car and
shot her twice in the back with a pump-action shotgun.
After killing Linda, Holman
returned to the couple's home and engaged in a gunfight with police,
then shot himself in the stomach.
Holman has fired his attorneys and
does not want any additional appeals filed on his behalf, however his
former lawyers have asked the judge to stop the execution until the
legal challenges over lethal injection in North Carolina are settled.
They also requested that a court-appointed psychiatrist evaluate
Holman's mental competency.
Holman once wrote a judge demanding
that he be executed. "I'm requesting the state of North Carolina's
justice system to do their jobs of seeing my sentence carried out to the
fullest!!" Holman wrote in 2002.
Last year in federal court, Holman
testified, "I would like closure for me and all my ... everybody
connected to my case," Holman said. "I would like to drop my appeals and
the state to carry out the sentence." Linda Holman's daughter hopes that
Holman gets his wish. "I'm really hoping and praying that this will
happen," said Deborah Hartless, 39, of Baltimore.
Hartless said she was surprised
that Holman took his stepchildren into consideration when he decided to
drop his appeals. Hartless said, "He wants to give some kind of peace to
the families, which blows my mind." There are still appeals pending in
this case and the execution is not expected to take place on this date.
