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  2. List of exonerated death row inmates - Wikipedia

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    Six men Ankush Maruti Shinde, Rajya Appa Shinde, Ambadas Laxman Shinde, Raju Mhasu Shinde, Bapu Appa Shinde and Suresh Shinde were convicted and sentenced to death penalty in 2009 on charges of rape and murder. On 6 March 2019, the Supreme Court of India acquitted all the six death-row convicts and proclaimed them innocent. [3] [4]

  3. List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss: Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 261 days Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance: Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 112 days Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace

  4. Charles Brooks Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Charles Brooks Jr. (September 1, 1942 – December 7, 1982), also known as Shareef Ahmad Abdul-Rahim, [1] was a convicted murderer who was the first person to be executed using lethal injection. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was the first prisoner executed in Texas since 1964, and the first African-American to be executed anywhere in the United States ...

  5. Donald Henry Gaskins - Wikipedia

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    On September 2, 1982, Gaskins committed another murder, for which he earned the title of the "Meanest Man in America". While incarcerated in the high-security block at the South Carolina Correctional Institution , Gaskins killed a death row inmate named Rudolph Tyner, who had received his sentence for killing an elderly couple during a bungled ...

  6. List of wrongful convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In October 1984, both McCollum and Brown were sentenced to death, with Brown becoming the youngest person on North Carolina's death row. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia used McCollum's case to justify the existence of the death penalty. [145] After appealing, both death sentences were overturned in 1988, and the two had retrials in 1991.

  7. Utah death-row inmate featured in best-selling book dies - AOL

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    Ron Lafferty, 78, had expected to be executed in Utah next year and become the first American put to death by firing squad in nearly a decade.

  8. Lynching of Michael Donald - Wikipedia

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    It was the only execution of a KKK member during the 20th century for the murder of an African American person. [3] Donald's mother, Beulah Mae Donald, brought a civil suit for wrongful death against the United Klans of America (UKA), to which the attackers belonged. In 1987, a jury awarded her damages of $7 million, which bankrupted the ...

  9. 12 last meals of famous death row inmates - AOL

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    While fried chicken seemed to be a popular menu choice, others have the most simple requests to the very detailed and exquisite. From Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy, we've got 12 meals that ...