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Sonia Jacobs was convicted of the murder of a Florida state trooper and a visiting Canadian constable at a rest stop outside Miami in 1976; she was on death row for nearly five years before the Florida state court ruled the judge had improperly imposed the death sentence even when the jury did not.
Corey Dewayne Williams took a reduced plea last year for his alleged role in a robbery-murder he confessed to at age 16, after an all-night interrogation in police custody.
There were plenty of reasons for concern over the verdict that Dennis Lawley was responsible for the murder of an ex-convict named Kenneth L. Stewart, whose body had been found on the side of a road in California’s Central Valley days after he was released from prison in 1989.
Five days before he was scheduled to be put to death in 2016 for the 2002 murder of his two-year old daughter, Robert Leslie Roberson III won a reprieve from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has unanimously voted in favor of a 120-day reprieve for death-row inmate Rodney Reed, who is scheduled to be executed Wednesday despite significant evidence of his innocence.
Lovell McDowell was awakened one night in April, 1988, by the sound of her infant daughter, Brittany Smith. McDowell found her boyfriend, then known as Charles Robins, holding the 11-month old and hollering, “Brittany, come on. Brittany, wake up. Wake up, Brittany.”
Firefighters who put out a smoldering fire in the living room of a Columbus, Mississippi, house in February, 1992, found Georgia Kemp, 82, lying dead on her bedroom floor, a bloody butcher knife on her bed.
John George Spirko, Jr. was a criminal with a system he believed would help cut his time in prison: He made up information for authorities, pretending to have knowledge that would help solve crimes.
Texas lawmakers, the European Union, celebrities and more than two million petitioners have asked Gov. Greg Abbott to halt the November 20 execution of inmate Rodney Reed, amid growing evidence of his innocence.
Nobody doubts that Charles Ray Jarrell Sr. shot and killed Marlin Shuler, a marijuana dealer, in 1990, after the two had been drinking beer together by a northern Alabama lake.