page_title: Richard Snell (criminal)
section_title: Murders and execution
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Snell (criminal) / Murders and execution
caption_attribution_description: English: Cummins Unit
context_page_description: Richard Wayne Snell was an American spree killer and white supremacist, convicted for the killing of two people in Arkansas between November 3, 1983 and June 30, 1984. Snell was sentenced to death for one of the murders, and executed by lethal injection in 1995.
context_section_description: Snell, known to his friends as "Wayne", was an anomaly amongst the militants of the CSA, in that he operated autonomously, using the CSA compound as his base of operation. Steven Scott, a frequent collaborator with Snell, gave this information in a federal prison holding cell to one of the then members.
  On November 3, 1983, Snell shot and killed pawn shop owner William Stumpp, whom he mistakenly believed was of Jewish descent, and then on June 30, 1984, he killed black Arkansas State Trooper Louis P. Bryant near DeQueen, Arkansas. Snell then left the scene and drove across the Oklahoma state line, however a truck driver who witnessed the killing of Officer Bryant followed him, and contacted the Broken Bow police department. The police officers there set up a roadblock, where they engaged Snell in a shootout which resulted in Snell being wounded six times in the abdomen, knee and ankle and arrested. Snell was then returned to Arkansas for trial, where he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Bryant and death for the murder of Stumpp. Snell never denied the allegations made against him, or the crimes he was accused of having committed.
  Snell was held at the Tucker Maximum Security Unit until April 15, 1995, when he was transferred to the execution site. Snell's death sentence was carried out on April 19, 1995 at the Cummins Unit in Lincoln County, Arkansas.
caption: The Cummins Unit, where Snell was executed
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