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His petition alleges that he is innocent, that police coerced him to falsely confess, and that a number of prosecutorial and defense errors ...

Tennessee - Death Penalty Information Center

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South Carolina executes first man in 13 years despite new evidence ...

South Carolina executes first man in 13 years despite new evidence of innocence ... South Carolina executed a man on death row on Friday, days ...

New Tennessee law helped inmate leave death row; judge's ruling ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2002 in Atkins v. Virginia that executing a prisoner with an intellectual disability violates the Eighth ...

Tennessee Attorney General Pursues Death Sentences and ...

... Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for nine death row prisoners. ... new executions. By the ... Pervis Payne alleged that he is ...

Innocence Project

We work to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.

Appellate Courts and Cases – Journalist's Guide

... Appeals Raising Constitutional Issues │ Death Penalty Appeals │ Three-Judge Panels ... In a criminal case, the defendant may appeal a conviction based on a ...

WHY SO LONG? EXPLAINING PROCESSING TIME IN CAPITAL ...

... sentence of death of prisoners, broken down by ... An appeal of the conviction and sentence—in essence, a review of alleged ... appeals in Tennessee death penalty ...

Death Penalty | Equal Justice Initiative

Innocence and Error · 200. 200 people have been exonerated and released from death row since 1973. · 1,603. 1,603 people have been executed in the U.S. since 1973 ...

Tennessee death row lawsuits match awareness of wrongful ...

New study from Death Penalty Information Center finds more wrongful convictions in capital sentences than ever seen before.

Capital Punishment in Tennessee

The Legislature responded by enacting a new law designed to correct constitutional problems. Page 3. 1976 - The U.S. Supreme Court approved ...

3 big takeaways from this Supreme Court death penalty case - PBS

Supreme Court justices weighed Wednesday whether to grant a new trial to Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man whose death row case has now come ...

Marcellus Williams executed by lethal injection in Missouri

The Supreme Court denied two separate appeals to halt the execution Tuesday. Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal ...

Fight Over Death Row Cases Heads to Tennessee Supreme Court

Criminal defendants who are convicted and sentenced to death can appeal that outcome in state and federal courts. In those proceedings, the AG's ...

Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri despite conviction doubts

They are carrying placards saying he is innocent. Joseph Amrine, who was exonerated two decades ago after spending years on death row, speaks at ...

List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new ...

Innocence and the Death Penalty

The Innocence Project has represented innocent people who were wrongly convicted of murder and condemned to death in cases that were compromised by police and ...

Opinion | In death row case, the Supreme Court says guilt is now ...

... innocence claims of Barry Lee Jones, a prisoner on Arizona's death row. ... Prisoners usually need to show not only that they've discovered new ...