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Springfield News-Leader
February 20, 2018
Two Mississippi death-row inmates sued Missouri in 2016 for information on its pentobarbital supply to try to prove the Show-Me State conducted ... One study showed that the average inmate facing capital punishment spends more than 15 years on death row and that taxpayers fund more in legal fees forÃÂ ...
NWAOnline
February 3, 2018
A presentation of On the Row, a staged reading of the stories of Arkansans on death row, will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday at Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Mississippi St. in Little Rock. The performance is the product of the Prison Story Project, which was founded by Kathy McGregor in 2012ÃÂ ...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
January 26, 2018
Attorneys for the Innocence Project, based in New York, began looking into Brooks' case as they were challenging the conviction of Kennedy Brewer in a similar killing of another young girl in the same small community in Noxubee County, Mississippi. Because Brewer was on death row, he was entitled toÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
January 25, 2018
Attorneys for the Innocence Project, based in New York, began looking into Brooks' case as they were challenging the conviction of Kennedy Brewer in a similar killing of another young girl in the same small community in Noxubee County, Mississippi. Because Brewer was on death row, he was entitled toÃÂ ...
Mother Jones
January 24, 2018
On Thursday, Alabama plans to execute Vernon Madison, an inmate who has been on death row for more than three decades for the 1985 murder of a police officer. Madison was ... During his time in prison in Mississippi, Madison received “psychiatric assistance” more than 30 times. A prison doctorÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 24, 2018
Before that, his lawyers had requested he be put to death by marksmen, but a judge rebuffed the request, and as a result, Campbell became the third United States prisoner in modern history to survive his own execution. The inmate, who is on death row for fatally shooting an 18-year-old during a carjackingÃÂ ...
Tucson News Now
December 31, 1999
Mississippi Civil Rights Activist Hezekiah Watkins - a participant in a bus stop sit-in organized by the Freedom Riders. Because of his part in the protest, he was jailed and put on Death Row temporarily at the age of 13. He has fought for civil rights ever since, and says this moment was when he became aÃÂ ...
WTVA
December 31, 1999
Wilbanks was transported to Parchman to begin serving his time on death row. His attorney says they will appeal the decision. Hear from the McClendon family here. Original story. OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) - Steven Wilbanks has been convicted of capital murder for the 2013 killing of Ole Miss graduateÃÂ ...
New York Times
November 29, 2017
In “Measure for Measure,” Angelo, a government official who is a strong proponent of his society's morality code, tries to get a young woman named Isabella to give up her virginity to him in exchange for pardoning her brother, who is on death row for having violated that code by having sex outside marriage.
New York Times
November 15, 2017
Ms. Smith did not respond to an email asking how the new date had been chosen. ... An inability to find a usable vein also led to an unsuccessful attempted execution of Romell Broom in 2009; he has remained on death row in Ohio since his execution was called off two hours after it was scheduled to begin ...
Ballarat Courier
November 12, 2017
In case you think It's all too cute, the twist is that it's all not for profit. Pikelet has raised more than $150,000 for pet-rescue services and helped re-house hundreds of dogs on death row. Ms Gibson and her husband live in inner Sydney and have fostered and re-housed more than 50 dogs, piglets, ducklings ...
WTVA
November 7, 2017
Curtis Giovanni Flowers, 47, is on death row for the 1996 killings of four people at Tardy Furniture Store in downtown Winona. He has been tried six times in connection with the case, the last time ending with his conviction in 2010. The U. S. Supreme Court threw out a Mississippi Supreme Court decision in ...
Jackson Sun
November 7, 2017
In 1990, Sabrina Butler Smith, a teen mother from Mississippi, was convicted of murdering her nine-month-old son Walter. ... Don Johnson, is now on death row in Tennessee, convicted of the crime; Amy Lawrence, coordinator of Tennessee Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty; and the Rev.
Scottish Daily Record
November 5, 2017
Boyfriend of holidaymaker on 'death row' in Egypt over prescription drugs row 'has wife ... "Her life is in danger," Ms Synclair told Mirror Online.
Texas Tribune
November 3, 2017
Bobby Moore, a man who has been on death row since 1980, will have his ... to how Louisiana and Mississippi determine intellectual disability.
Tyler Morning Telegraph
October 30, 2017
"Ms. Cargill, Cherry loved you and she loved (your son)," Rueon Walker ... Cargill is one of six women on death row in Texas, which is the most ...
The Commercial Appeal
October 26, 2017
A man on death row for a 1993 DeSoto County slaying will get a new trial because of DNA evidence and false testimony, the Mississippi ...
teleSUR English
October 23, 2017
It feels like I am sitting on death row. Unless things change, I will never go home alive." A new report, "Whole Pie: Mass Incarceration 2017," that ...
MyPalmBeachPost
October 18, 2017
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, who is white, was a student at Tougaloo College, a small, historically black college in Mississippi, when she ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph
October 16, 2017
Evidence during the trial revealed Clark hit Ms. Muse with a stun gun, bound her with duct tape and kept her in a closet in his south Tyler home ...
AllAfrica.com
October 12, 2017
... Services, the French Ambassador to Uganda, Ms Stephanie Rivoal, ... that most of inmates on death row are poor and could not afford justice.
Vicksburg Post
December 31, 1999
Jordan, meanwhile, has served 41 years on death row for kidnapping and killing Edwina Marta in Harrison County in 1976. “In a couple of weeks, we hope to get this motion filed to get the federal court case dismissed, and also at the same time, file a motion with the Mississippi Supreme Court to set an ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Ms. Sadat and her crew say that just the fact of having made “A Letter to the President” — a feature film made to high standards under difficult circumstances — feels like a victory. But the ... The letter to the president of the movie's title is hers; she is writing from prison, where she has landed on death row.
The Commercial Dispatch
December 31, 1999
The Mississippi Supreme Court has asked Circuit Judge Lee Howard ... bite mark evidence that landed a Lowndes County man on death row.
The Daily Record (registration)
September 8, 2017
They were found burned to death in Ms. Brewington's farmhouse near ... Mr. Brewington, now 53, still sits in a cell on death row awaiting hisÃÂ ...
News & Observer
September 6, 2017
Or see the clergy who minister on Death Row, who've said Jason ... Ms. Melbourne writes that she asked the governor to spare JasonÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
August 30, 2017
A convicted murderer in Nevada who spent 31 years on death row has been ... of Ms. Blackwell and the things that happened in 1986," he said.
New York Times
August 22, 2017
Ms. Paradise did not respond to questions asking for specifics. ... declare that the constitution guarantees that death-row prisoners who presentÃÂ ...
Natchez Democrat
August 18, 2017
The life of a man now on death row hangs on that decision. ... The Mississippi Supreme Court ordered the hearing to determine if a new trial isÃÂ ...
CrimeOnline
August 17, 2017
Scott Peterson, the former Modesto resident currently on death row for killing ... Ms. Nice suppressed this information, however, in an apparentÃÂ ...
Jackson Free Press
August 17, 2017
Richard Gerald Jordan, who is the longest-standing person on death row in Mississippi, has filed fresh challenges to the state's death penalty.
Western Advocate
August 15, 2017
On death row, a whisper saved his life. ... rights of the death convict should be fulfilled before an execution is carried out," Ms Rahayu says.
Jackson Clarion Ledger
August 15, 2017
Since 2000, at least 11 Mississippians have been convicted in cases involving the shaken baby syndrome, with two of them sitting on death rowÃÂ ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
August 14, 2017
On death row, a whisper saved his life. .... rights of the death convict should be fulfilled before an execution is carried out," Ms Rahayu says.
New York Times
August 13, 2017
Nearly two years later, Ms. Mai is still searching for closure. ... however, that the number of people on death row in Vietnam had climbed to 681ÃÂ ...
SFGate
August 11, 2017
... ruling written by Judge Smith directly affected four inmates on Death Row, ... to the University of Mississippi's refusal to admit black students.
New York Times
August 10, 2017
... Judge Smith directly affected four inmates on death row, including Stephen ... to the University of Mississippi's refusal to admit black students.
KTAL
July 29, 2017
"She rescues from shelters all around - that are on death row that no one else would take. Then she takes em," says Kaye Stone, a friend ofÃÂ ...
The Economist
July 27, 2017
Ms Yallop's tale begins on her 40th birthday, as she and her husband ... up to 170kg, is like “an executioner falling for someone on death row”.
New York Times
July 22, 2017
As the number of death row prisoners grew, Ms. Holdman took a job running the Florida Clearinghouse on Criminal Justice in Tallahassee,ÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
July 18, 2017
... telephone recordings to get defense strategy of a man accused in the deaths of two sisters forced off an abandoned Mississippi River bridge.
America Magazine
July 17, 2017
... for their implications for death row prisoners across the country. ... his remaining days on death row as a fellow inmate and prison minister to his peers. ... Both Ms. Mundell and Sheila Marie's aunt, Donna Hudson, asked theÃÂ ...
Ghana News Agency
July 12, 2017
Ms Sabrina Tucci, the Research and Campaign Assistant on Death ... AI West Africa, said the organisation's research into life on death row inÃÂ ...
BuzzNigeria.com
December 31, 1999
Maria Dapirka: Russian Woman On Death-Row Was Set-up By ... In a farewell letter she sent her mother, Ms. Dapirka claims she was set up byÃÂ ...
The South Burnett Times
December 31, 1999
Mr Scott was unimpressed with Ms Ayala's decision, and used his ... cleared, attention will turn to the other 362 inmates on death row in Florida.
Gazette Live
December 31, 1999
... gran Lindsay Sandiford is still awaiting her fate on death row in Indonesia. ... Ms Sandiford, now 61, maintains she was carrying the drugs toÃÂ ...
WKOW
March 9, 2017
(AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel). In this Jan. 31, 2017, photo, Trumann Police Chief Chad Henson is interviewed outside the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark.
Naples Daily News
March 8, 2017
It has been 54 years since Joan Trumpauer Mulholland sat in at a segregated lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi, but she still remembers the feeling of her soul leaving her body at the eruption of an angry white mob.
AL.com
March 7, 2017
Finally, this: his "baby brother," Randy, is on death row at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore for the 2007 shooting death of Taurus Frost during the kidnapping and robbery of Frost's girlfriend on March 27, 2006.
Castanet.net
March 7, 2017
A freight train smashed into a charter bus in a coastal Mississippi city on Tuesday, pushing the bus 300 feet down the tracks and leaving at least four people dead, authorities said.
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