In 1996 Cool
C was convicted of first degree murder for the same year shooting death of
Lauretha Vaird, a Philadelphia police officer who attempted to end a botched
robbery attempt by C and an accomplice. At a subsequent hearing, Cool C was
sentenced to death.
After
serving the last 18 years in prison Cool C now has a death date as it was
recently announced the Philly native will be put to death via lethal injection
on January 8, 2015. He originally was sentenced to die on March 9, 2006,
however Pennsylvania's governor granted a delay of the execution.
Cool C is
perhaps best known as a member of C.E.B., a 1980s Philadelphia Hip Hop group
who was considered a Liberty City version of Juice Crew. In 1989 C released his
debut and highest acclaimed album I Gotta Habit, which contained the single
"The Glamorous Life," a Billboard-charting track and Juice Crew diss.
Culled from
Hiphopdx.com
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