What would you do if you’ve been wrongfully convicted of murder, put on death row for 12 years, given two execution dates, proven innocent, and still unable to get out until everything is sorted? Some would go crazy or not even make it. Anthony Graves went through all of this and rose above. His new […]
Suge Knight has such a strong history of violence, it's easy to believe he's threatened a rapper or two in his day.
Duane Buck was tried and convicted of murder on charges that he shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and another man in 1995.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight has a new lawyer in a murder case filed after authorities said he ran over two men in a parking lot last year in Compton, California. Former prosecutor Stephen L. Schwartz has replaced Thomas Mesereau, who won an acquittal for Michael Jackson on child […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury decided Wednesday that a 29-year-old self-styled pimp should be sentenced to death for killing three people by opening fire into a moving vehicle after a dispute at a hip-hop event in a posh Las Vegas Strip resort. Ammar Asim Faruq Harris wasn’t in the courtroom when the verdict was […]
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — The only woman on Georgia’s death row was executed early Wednesday, making her the first woman put to death by the state in seven decades. Kelly Renee Gissendaner was pronounced dead by injection of pentobarbital at 12:21 a.m. at the state prison in Jackson. She was convicted of murder in the […]
On Friday, Anthony Ray Hinton walked out of prison a free man after spending 30 years on death row for a crime he did not…
Glenn Ford was freed last year after serving 30 years on Louisiana’s death row for a crime he didn’t commit. If that wasn’t bad enough,…
Attorneys for a mentally challenged man sentenced to death for killing a sheriff deputy argue that he received poor defense from his previous lawyer, who was…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve years after barring execution of the mentally disabled, the Supreme Court on Tuesday prohibited states in borderline cases from relying only on intelligence test scores to determine whether a death row inmate is eligible to be executed. In a 5-4 decision that split the court’s liberal and conservative justices, the court […]
Shocking Number Of Innocent People Sentenced To Death, Study Finds More than 4 percent of inmates sentenced to death in the United States are probably…
