Press Release: More Mistakes Found In Death Row Convictions
For Immediate Release July 29, 2009More Mistakes Found In Death Row ConvictionsWithin the past two weeks two more men have left a death row prison, found innocent after serving years for crimes that...
View ArticleJudges’ Dissents for Death Row Inmates Are Rising
It took just 80 words for a federal appeals court to deny Kevin Cooper’s most recent plea to avoid execution. But attached to that order was a forceful 101-page dissent by a judge, all but pleading to...
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Innocents Convicted of Murder in Oregon
Oregon has come perilously close to sentencing people to death for crimes they did not commit. Five people have been convicted of murder, or aggravated murder, and given sentences ranging from twenty...
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Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?
The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty sent out the following message last night, after the first showing of the new PBS Frontline documentary "Death by Fire", which looks into the case...
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NY Times on Troy Davis Execution: An Indefensible Punishment
September 25, 2011 When the Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty 35 years ago, it did so provisionally. Since then, it has sought to articulate legal standards for states to follow that would...
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The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death
A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme court, made a bold statement. There has not been, he said, "a single case – not one – in which it is clear that a person was...
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Ohio: Another release from death row
Sept. 6, 2012 Another deadly mistake has been uncovered and corrected. Michael Keenan was released from Ohio’s death row today, after serving 24 year of imprisonment, for a crime he did not commit....
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INNOCENCE: Louisiana Death Row Inmate Exonerated Through DNA After 15 Years
On September 28, Damon Thibodeaux was freed from death row in Louisiana after an extensive investigation, including DNA testing and the cooperation of Jefferson Parrish District Attorney Paul Connick....
View ArticlePress Release: More Mistakes Found In Death Row Convictions
For Immediate Release July 29, 2009More Mistakes Found In Death Row ConvictionsWithin the past two weeks two more men have left a death row prison, found innocent after serving years for crimes that...
View ArticleJudges’ Dissents for Death Row Inmates Are Rising
It took just 80 words for a federal appeals court to deny Kevin Cooper’s most recent plea to avoid execution. But attached to that order was a forceful 101-page dissent by a judge, all but pleading to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Innocents Convicted of Murder in Oregon
Oregon has come perilously close to sentencing people to death for crimes they did not commit. Five people have been convicted of murder, or aggravated murder, and given sentences ranging from twenty...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?
The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty sent out the following message last night, after the first showing of the new PBS Frontline documentary "Death by Fire", which looks into the case...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NY Times on Troy Davis Execution: An Indefensible Punishment
September 25, 2011 When the Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty 35 years ago, it did so provisionally. Since then, it has sought to articulate legal standards for states to follow that would...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death
A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme court, made a bold statement. There has not been, he said, "a single case – not one – in which it is clear that a person was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ohio: Another release from death row
Sept. 6, 2012 Another deadly mistake has been uncovered and corrected. Michael Keenan was released from Ohio’s death row today, after serving 24 year of imprisonment, for a crime he did not commit....
View ArticleClik here to view.
INNOCENCE: Louisiana Death Row Inmate Exonerated Through DNA After 15 Years
On September 28, Damon Thibodeaux was freed from death row in Louisiana after an extensive investigation, including DNA testing and the cooperation of Jefferson Parrish District Attorney Paul Connick....
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