Ray and Faye Copeland

| conviction = First degree murder (5 counts) | victims = | country = United States | states = Missouri | beginyear = 1986 | endyear = 1989 | occupation = Factory Worker, Motel Maid and Nanny for Neela Patel and her children Samir and Amy | apprehended = October 17, 1989 | sentence = Death; commuted to life imprisonment | criminal_status = Deceased }}

Faye Della Copeland (née Wilson; August 4, 1921 – December 23, 2003) and Raymond W. Copeland (December 30, 1914 – October 19, 1993) became, at the ages of 69 and 76 respectively, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States. They were convicted of killing five drifters at their farm in Mooresville, Missouri. When her sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1999, Faye Copeland was the oldest woman on death row. Provided by Wikipedia