Former death row inmate Kerry Max Cook exonerated for 1977 Tyler murder sues city, Smith County
Cook says he is seeking justice for the harm, loss of liberty and hardships he endured over the past 47 years and continues ...
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“Actually innocent”: Judge recommends overturning death row inmate Melissa Lucio’s conviction, sending case to Texas high court
The Cameron County judge also found the state relied on false testimony during her capital murder trial, according to court ...
No more death row executions until January, SC Supreme Court decides
South Carolina will not carry out any more executions until at least January, the state Supreme Court ruled in a Thursday ...
Was bad evidence in play for man on Mississippi's death row? Maybe. It wouldn't be a first
The district attorney who prosecuted Willie Jerome Manning for capital murder in two separate cases stands by work despite ...
Death row inmate once again seeks to have death sentence vacated
Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed court documents asking for post-conviction ...
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How disagreements about a Texas death row inmate’s guilt became a legal battle between branches of government
The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether a legislative subpoena of a death row inmate infringed on the executive branch ...
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Death row inmate looks to Seventh Circuit for spousal visitation rights
The inmate sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2021 after they denied his wife's visitation request because he did not have ...
US death row inmate stages jazz protest for release in London court
Some of Britain's most notorious cases have been tried at London's Old Bailey, including those attracting the death penalty ...
Newborn boy dies on Skid Row; LAPD investigating
LAPD is investigating the death of a newborn boy who was possibly thrown from a 4th-floor window in L.A.'s Skid Row on ...
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Bryan Kohberger's defense argues against death penalty, calls death row "dehumanizing"
“When somebody sits on death row and there’s no real means of executing them, that is dehumanizing to that person," Taylor ...
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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 ...
Texas prisoners, including death row inmates, may be able to vote under little-known elections law
Texas elections law says state prison inmates who are appealing their convictions are eligible to register. Many lawyers and ...