TEXAS – Willingham Won’t Get Posthumous Pardon
april 3. 2014 The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has voted not to recommend a posthumous full pardon for Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed a decade ago after being convicted of setting a...
View ArticleEx-death row inmate Anthony Porter angry, feels ‘cheated’ out of money
April 20, 2014 Anthony Porter is angry. He’s come within hours of being executed after he was convicted of killing two people. He was freed from Death Row after another man, Alstory Simon, confessed to...
View ArticleExonerated convict Glenn Ford succumbs to lung cancer at 65
June 29, 2015 Glenn Ford, who spent nearly 30 years on Angola’s death row for a murder that prosecutors eventually conceded he did not commit, died in New Orleans early Monday (June 29), supporters...
View ArticleMemorial For The Youngest Teen Executed
July 13, 2015 Alcolu, SC (WLTX)- On Saturday the young boy, executed without a fair trial was honored with a memorial. George Stinney Jr. was 14-years-old when he was electrocuted in the connection of...
View ArticleCritics of Solitary Confinement Buoyed as Obama Embraces Cause
July 21, 2015 WASHINGTON — Before he was exonerated of murder and released in 2010, Anthony Graves spent 18 years locked up in a Texas prison, 16 of them all alone in a tiny cell. Actually, he does not...
View ArticleLIFE AFTER DEATH ROW The resurrection of Damon Thibodeaux
The executioner haunts Damon Thibodeaux. Nightmares yank him back to the 8-by-10-foot cell that confines him to solitary 23 hours a day. Loneliness overwhelms him; despair crushes his spirit. He wants...
View ArticleFlorida man struggles to build life after death row exoneration
Seth Penalver dropped to the floor and wept into his chair when a Florida jury declared him not guilty in the shooting deaths of three people during a 1994 home invasion. After 3 trials and 18 years...
View ArticleFormer Virginia death row prisoner to go free – Joseph M. Giarratano
A convicted double murderer who came within two days of sitting in Virginia’s electric chair will soon be a free man. Joseph M. Giarratano, who won support from around the world fighting his 1979...
View ArticleShreveport man freed from death row files suit in hopes ‘injustice never...
December 5, 2017 SHREVEPORT — The lawsuit filed by former death row inmate Rodricus Crawford is about more than justice for Crawford; it’s about getting Caddo Parish officials to change their...
View ArticleWrongly Imprisoned for Killing His Infant Daughter, a Father Could Go Free...
December 5,2017 The science on shaken baby syndrome, it turns out, was not actually sound and should not have been used for putting this father behind bars. This story was originally published by The...
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