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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: Shooting

with 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.