Alabama death row inmate to be freed after nearly 30 years

The Profile Dossier: Anthony Ray Hinton, the Innocent Man on ...

He maintained his innocence through the entire duration of the 30 years he served on death row, which makes him one of the longest serving death ...

Prisoners in Alabama and Louisiana sue over forced prison labor

Willie Ingram picked everything from cotton to okra during his 51 years in the state penitentiary, better known as Angola. During his time in ...

Live updates: Alabama carries out nitrogen hypoxia execution

8:30 - Alabama Governor Kay Ivey confirms that Kenneth Smith has been executed by nitrogen hypoxia, the first U.S. execution of its kind. “After ...

Despite evidence of innocence, Alabama officials leave Toforest ...

It has now been nearly three years since I first wrote about Toforest Johnson, a 49-year-old man who has sat on Alabama's death row for 24 ...

Anthony Ray Hinton tells his story of surviving, leaving Alabama's ...

When Anthony Ray Hinton walked free from Death Row in April 2015 after spending almost 30 years trapped in a 5-by-7-foot cell, ...

Anthony Ray Hinton Spent Almost 30 Years on Death Row. Now He ...

Anthony Ray Hinton was mowing the lawn at his mother's house in 1985 when Alabama police came to arrest him for two murders he did not ...

FAQs - Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles

An inmate may apply only once a year (or after 18 months if he or she has ... For sentences of more than five years but less than 10 years, mandatory release ...

Anthony Ray Hinton blames racism for wrongful jailing - BBC News

A man released from prison after nearly 30 years on death row in Alabama has blamed his conviction on being black and poor.

New Execution Methods, Old Problems - The Marshall Project

Ultimately, the execution lasted about 22 minutes. With that macabre scene, Alabama carried out the first known execution by “nitrogen hypoxia,” ...

Why was Marcellus Williams executed? What to know about the ...

Williams was put to death shortly after 23:00 GMT on Tuesday at a prison in Bonne Terre in Missouri, despite objections from prosecutors who ...

For many death row inmates, the long process leading to capital ...

In 1979, Arthur Lee Giles, then 19 years old, was sentenced to death in Blount County, Alabama. Nearly 40 years later, he is still waiting ...

List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

Federal ; Len Davis, Conspiracy to violate civil rights through murder. 28 years, 204 days (since initial sentence) 19 years, 20 days (since re-sentencing) ...

Death Penalty - Amnesty International

After that initial year of being president of the student chapter, I was asked to apply and serve in the role of Amnesty's Alabama State Death Penalty Abolition ...

These 30 Alabama Death Row inmates are waiting to die because ...

Thomas Dale Ferguson was sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of Harold Pugh, and his 11-year-old son, Joey, in a fishing boat. Ferguson was ...

Historical Timeline - Death Penalty - ProCon.org

Convicted double-murder Bill Bailey was executed by hanging on Jan. 25, 1996 in Delaware. Bailey was the third person executed by hanging since the death ...

Alabama's execution of Joe Nathan James, Jr: What we know, don't ...

was executed for a crime he committed nearly 30 years ago. Since his death, emerging details about what occurred in the death chamber that ...

These States Hold About Half of America's Death Row Inmates

When the federal government began executing condemned prisoners again earlier this year, Attorney General Bill Barr lauded the July 14 execution ...

Lawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor ...

His case did not come before the parole board until November 28, 2023, more than two years after he'd already been acquitted, but he was denied ...

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Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi's longest-tenured death row inmate, filed court documents asking for post-conviction relief and/or to have his death sentence ...

Four Years After the U.S. Department of Justice Warning, Alabama's ...

But 698 incarcerated people have since died in state prisons, a new $1 billion prison will not open until 2026, and the federal trial is ...