Execution order signed for Cool C

80’s Rap Artist Cool C Will Be Executed March 9th 2006

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed the execution warrant yesterday for former Philadelphia rapper Christopher "Cool C" Roney. Roney, 36, is currently an inmate at Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution at Greene and is set to die by lethal injection on March 9. While his accomplice and rap sidekick WARREN ’STEADY B’ McGLONE was sentenced to life imprisonment, Roney received a death sentence for pulling the trigger.

In October 1996, Roney was found guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of Philadelphia police officer and nine-year veteran Lauretha Vaird during a botched January 1996 bank robbery that included rap partner Warren "Steady B" McGlone and a third man. Vaird was Philadelphia’s first female officer ever killed in the line of duty.

As a member of the hip-hop group ’Hilltop Hustlers’ and the group CEB, Cool C showed his rap talents on tracks like ‘I Gotta Habit’ and ‘Glamorous Life’. His hip-hop and rap MC talents landed him a contract with Atlantic records in 1988; he released 2 albums with Atlantic (1989 I Gotta Habit and 1990 Life In The Ghetto)
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