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Man Faces Execution After Daughter's Death Was Ruled Shaken Baby Syndrome. But Lead Detective Thinks Cops Got It All Wrong
who was convicted of murdering his 2-year-old daughter in 2002 Texas Department of Criminal Justice A Texas judge denied a motion to vacate the scheduled execution of death row inmate Robert ...
Death row inmate executed despite appeal from judge and jurors who convicted him
Death row inmate Richard Moore has been executed after South Carolina's governor rejected a plea to change his sentence to ...
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A Death Before Dying
For many, a death sentence means a double punishment. People on death row can spend decades locked alone in a tiny, cement room before they are ever strapped to an execution gurney. We know that the ...
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South Carolina executes death row inmate despite pleas from jurors and a judge to spare his life
The US Supreme Court has declined to halt the execution set for Friday evening of a Black inmate in South Carolina who ...
Appeals court orders new trial for man on Texas’ death row over judge’s antisemitic bias
A Texas appeals court has ordered a new trial for a Jewish man on death row because of antisemitic bias by the judge in his ...
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Robert Roberson scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Oct. 17
EXCLUSIVE: A Texas death row inmate is scheduled to be executed next week for his conviction of killing his 2-year-old daughter in 2002, but his lawyer argues that not only is her client innocent ...
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Opinion | Death row: America’s blind eye toward Black innocents.
When someone’s eyes linger on the mutilated body of Emmett Till, “justice” is the last word anyone would think. Yet, it was ...
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Death penalty
By Kayla Guo Oct. 29, 2024 The AG also said he’d make a criminal referral against the lawmaker, who apologized for texting a Court of Criminal Appeals judge about a new trial for the death row ...
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Dem lawmaker reintroduces death row appeals bill allowing for introduction of newly discovered evidence
Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson re-introduced a death row appeals bill that would allow death row inmates the opportunity to introduce newly discovered evidence in their appeal. H.R. 9868 ...
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Death row inmate to appear in court two days before his scheduled execution
(KSLA) — KSLA News 12 has learned that a Palestine man on Texas’ death row will appear in court Tuesday (Oct. 15), just a couple days before his scheduled execution. Robert Roberson is due in an ...
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The world’s longest ever death-row inmate is finally free
Your support makes all the difference. A man who has spent the record time on death row is finally free after prosecutors said they will not appeal his acquittal. The news is bringing closure to ...
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What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
As of Wednesday, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...