Rowland Barnes was murdered by a man on trial for what crime?
Rowland Barnes Rowland W. Barnes (April 25, 1940 – March 11, 2005) was a Fulton County, Georgia, United States, Superior Court Judge. He oversaw the 2003 trial of hockey star Dany Heatley, who was charged with vehicular homicide after the death of teammate Dan Snyder in a car accident. Judge Barnes was shot to death in his courtroom by Brian Nichols in 2005.
Peter Manuel Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel (13 March 1927 – 11 July 1958) was an American-Scottish serial killer who was convicted of murdering a total of seven people across Lanarkshire and southern Scotland between 1956 and his arrest in January 1958, and is believed to have murdered two more, nine in all. Prior to his arrest, the media nicknamed the unidentified killer "the Beast of Birkenshaw". Manuel was hanged at Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison; he was one of the last prisoners to die on the Barlinnie gallows.