Ponchai Wilkerson facts for kids
Ponchai Kamau Wilkerson (15 July 1971 – 14 March 2000) (also Ponchai Kamau, Kamau Wilkerson, Ponchai "Kamau" Wilkerson) was a convicted murderer executed by lethal injection by the U.S. state of Texas. He was convicted for the 28 November 1990 murder of jeweller 이중명 Yi Chung Myong 李鍾冥. He was convicted by a jury on 16 July 1991 and ten days later sentenced to death by the same jury.
Early life
Ponchai Kamau Wilkerson (โพนชัย กาเมา วิลเกอร์สัน), of African-American and Thai descent, was born in Houston, Texas. Not much is known about Wilkerson's early childhood; he later grew up in the Fort Bend-Houston area east of Missouri City, Texas, attending public schools in the Fort Bend Independent School District. Ponchai graduated from Willowridge High School in 1990.
See also
- Capital punishment in Texas
- Capital punishment in the United States
- List of people executed in Texas, 2000–2009
