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Posted: February 10, 2003
A Maricopa County, Arizona, jury sentenced white supremacist Tracy Hampton to death in late January for murdering his housemates, including a pregnant woman, in May 2001.
Hampton, 33, was convicted last year on two counts of first degree murder for killing Tanya Ramsdell, 19, her unborn child, and her boyfriend, Charles Findley, 25, in the Moon Valley, Arizona, house they shared.
Prosecutors said Hampton shot Findley in the forehead because Findley identified him to Department of Public Safety officers attempting to serve him with a traffic ticket. Hampton then kicked in the door to Ramsdell's bedroom and shot her in the forehead as well.
Deputy county prosecutor Noel Levy said Hampton killed Ramsdell because he believed her unborn child was fathered by a black man.
Hampton, who has a long criminal record, is covered with tattoos of skulls and racist slogans such as "White Power." During the sentencing phase, the prosecutor described Hampton's array of racist tattoos as a "harbinger of death."
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