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4 days ago · 1 of 2 | . FILE - This booking photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Marcellus Williams. A Missouri judge on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, set an Aug. 21 date for a hearing to determine if Williams is innocent of the murder that landed him on death row — a hearing that comes just a little over a month before Williams is scheduled to die.
2 days ago · As of January 1, 2024, there were 2,241 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).
3 days ago · The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information about capital punishment.… Live Updates: Larry Roberts Becomes the 200th Person Exonerated from Death Row
3 days ago · In the Executioner's Shadow casts a penetrating look at the consequences of the death penalty through three powerful stories - the rare perspective of a former state executioner who comes...
4 days ago · Larry Roberts. Left to Right: Assistant Federal Public Defender Brian Abbington, Larry Roberts, and CHU Investigator Carlos Escobedo. Larry Roberts, the 200th exoneree, was wrongfully convicted in 1983 for the murder of a fellow prisoner and prison guard at the California Medical Center in Vacaville, California.
1 day ago · Protecting and respecting the dead makes us human. In April 2021, Morris Tidball-Binz, a forensic doctor and national of Chile and Argentina, was appointed as the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. During the 56th session of the Human Rights Council, he presented a report on the Protection of the dead.
4 days ago · Dennis Counterman, who spent more than 18 years in prison some on death row after being charged with setting a fire that killed his three children, was released Wednesday as a result of a rare plea agreement.
