1982 Wilkes-Barre Shootings, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

1982 Wilkes-Barre Shootings

American mass murderer

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1942

Place of Birth: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

The 1982 Wilkes-Barre Shootings was a spree killing in the United States carried out by George Emil Banks (born June 22, 1942).
A former Camp Hill prison guard, Banks shot 13 people to death on September 25, 1982 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and Jenkins Township, including seven children – five being his own – their mothers, some of their relatives, and one bystander.
His attorneys argued for the insanity defense, but, following a trial before jurors from Allegheny County and presided over by Luzerne County Common Pleas judge Patrick J.
Toole Jr., Banks was convicted of 12 counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death.On November 29, 1990, the Pennsylvania State Legislature barred further use of the electric chair amid debate that electrocution was cruel and unusual punishment; it approved execution by lethal injection.
Banks's case was appealed and, on December 2, 2004, he received a stay of execution following a determination that he was incompetent for execution.
On May 12, 2010, Luzerne County Common Pleas judge Joseph Augello declared Banks was incompetent to be executed, following a competency hearing held the previous month.