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Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment. Opponents of capital punishment often cite cases of wrongful execution as arguments, while proponents argue that innocence concerns the credibility of the justice system as a whole and does not solely undermine the use of the death penalty.
’How can you execute a man when there is reasonable doubt?’ Obie Alexander, who spent nearly two decades in prison on a wrongful murder conviction, toldThe Independent
Missouri executed Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams on Tuesday in the 1998 killing of a former newspaper reporter despite a prosecutor in the case and the family of the victim saying his life should ...
But even if only one innocent person is executed, surely that is one too many. News story: After Marcellus Williams is executed in Missouri, a nation reacts As a conservative, I value justice ...
Convicted 1988. Along with Gregory R. Wilhoit, Williamson later became the inspiration for and subject of John Grisham's 2006 non-fiction book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town. [132] Ronald Jones, Illinois. Convicted 1989. Released May 17, 1999. [161] [162] Clarence Richard Dexter, Jr., Missouri. Convicted 1991. [163]
The Long Silence: The True Story of James Hanratty and the A6 Murder by Valerie Storie, the Woman Who Lived to Tell the Tale (2021) ISBN 9780750996761. Leonard Miller. Hanratty’s Guilt: The A6 Murder and its Aftermath (2022) ISBN 9781838489854. Harriman, Robert (30 October 2023). Executed: But was James Hanratty Innocent?:
The state attorney general’s office is so zealous that it told the state Supreme Court one wrongly convicted man should be put to death even despite evidence that he’s innocent. Missouri has a ...
After Griffin's execution, a 2005 post-execution investigation was sponsored by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. [10] [11] [12] This NAACP investigation raised doubts about the conviction (specifically as to the shooter's identity), and subsequently caused an investigation by the St. Louis City Circuit Attorney's Office.