In 1983, Vernon Lee Evans, appellant, for a fee of $9,000 paid by or on behalf of his friend, Anthony Grandison, murdered Scott Piechowicz and Susan Kennedy at the Warren House Motel in Pikesville ...

WASHINGTON — Vernon Lee Evans Jr., a Maryland death row inmate, failed yesterday in his latest appeal to the Supreme Court over his murder-for-hire conviction and death sentence, the fourth time ...

Feb. 1, 2006 — -- One sister says Vernon Lee Evans Jr. was beaten by her parents often. Another sister says Vernon tried to commit suicide at age 10 and was sexually abused when he was a ...

As Vernon Evans sat in his cell on Maryland's death row last spring, he had more to ponder than his own execution. There was the lonely Brazilian who needed his advice, and a fellow from the ...