BY Associated Press | April 6, 2021
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska prison officials say a man who had been on death row since 2003 has died. The total number of condemned inmates in the state now stands at 11. Fifty-five-year-old Arthur Gales died Saturday. He was sentenced to death for the 2000 slayings of two children, 13-year-old Latara Chandler and 7-year-old Tramar Chandler, in Omaha. He received a separate 50-year sentence for the attempted murder of their mother, who was severely beaten. The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said the cause of Gales’ death wasn’t yet known, but he had been undergoing treatment for an unspecified medical condition. A grand jury will investigate, which happens anytime a prison inmate dies in custody.
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This undated photo provided by the Omaha Police Department shows Arthur Lee Gales who was sentenced to death for the November 2000 slayings of his then-girlfriend s two children. Gales died Saturday, reducing the total number of condemned inmates in the state to 11, prison officials said Monday, April 5, 2021. (Omaha World-Herald/Omaha Police Department via AP) Monday, April 5, 2021 7:07 PM EST By GRANT SCHULTE, AP
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) A man who had been on Nebraska s death row since 2003 died Saturday, reducing the total number of condemned inmates in the state to 11, prison officials said Monday.
Arthur Gales, 55, was sentenced to death for the November 2000 slayings of his then-girlfriend s two children. Authorities said he killed 13-year-old Latara Chandler and 7-year-old Tramar Chandler because they were potential witnesses to him severely beating their mother.
By Julia Bertino
(Tecumseh, NE) A Nebraska death row inmate has died.
The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services says Saturday morning, 55 year old Arthur Gales died at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution. His sentence started December 9th, 2003. Gales was sentenced to death on charges out of Douglas County that included two counts of first degree murder and a count of second degree murder.
Gales was found guilty in the November 2000 murders of 13 year old Latara Chandler and 7 year old Tramar Chandler and the attempted murder of their mother Judy Chandler. at the time, prosecutors and investigators said that Gales beat Judy nearly to death, then killed her two children as they were witnesses to his crime.