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The Cameron County judge also found the state relied on false testimony during her capital murder trial, according to court documents.
A Texas judge said that a mother who has been on death row since 2008 over the death of her toddler is "actually innocent," with a decision on her release now in the hands of Texas’s Court of ...
Melissa Lucio was two days away from being put to death in Texas for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter when an appeals court intervened in 2022. Now, a judge says Lucio never committed the ...
On July 1, 2022, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates for twenty-five state death row inmates, one of whom was Johnson. He was scheduled to be executed on May 2, 2024. [ 11 ] His execution was later postponed due to a request by attorney general Gentner Drummond , who asked for sixty days between executions rather than ...
Jeffery Lee "Jeff" Wood (born August 19, 1973) is a man on death row in the state of Texas. He was scheduled for execution in 2008 and 2016 before stays of execution were issued. [ 2 ] As in the case of Kenneth Foster , [ 3 ] Wood's death sentence stems from the Texas law of parties , which is related to the felony murder rule .
Melissa Lucio, a mother of 14 living in Brownsville, Texas, was arrested and charged in 2007 for the murder of her two-year-old daughter Mariah Alvarez who had turned purple and unresponsive at home.
Exonerations of Malcolm Scott and De'Marchoe Carpenter. On May 19, 2016, a Tulsa County District Judge found Scott and Carpenter "actually innocent" of a 1994 drive-by shooting that landed them a prison sentence of Life + 170 years. [7] [8] Scott and Carpenter became the 31st and 32nd individuals to be exonerated in Oklahoma since 1989. [9]
A death row inmate convicted of killing her toddler daughter is “actually innocent” of murder and should be freed from custody, the prisoner's trial judge said in documents unearthed on Thursday.